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Friday Fiction: The Life of Althea Gyles: Designer of The Secret Rose

July 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by Orna Ross

Althea Gyles, the artist and writer who designed the cover of WB Yeats’s The Secret Rose (which I reproduced on my … Read more

February 15, 2022February 14, 2016 by Orna Ross

Out today, in ebook: the first book of my WB Yeats – Maud Gonne trilogy in standalone edition. [The special … Read more

February 15, 2022July 27, 2015 by Orna Ross

I’ve gone back to school! I’m writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk’s Well … Read more

February 24, 2022July 15, 2015 by Orna Ross

“WB Yeats Was An Indie Author” says Orna Ross, Irish Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, launching her new … Read more

August 25, 2022July 6, 2015 by Orna Ross

On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat’s short story … Read more

February 24, 2022July 4, 2015 by Orna Ross

“I am what is called on the Internet a “superfan,” of WB Yeats and one of the things I … Read more

February 15, 2022May 31, 2015 by Orna Ross

Thank you to all who supported my Crowdfunder. With your help, I made it! 103% funded as I write, on … Read more

February 15, 2022May 15, 2015 by Orna Ross

Here are five reasons to support Secret Rose, my crowdfunding project. 1) You’ll be reviving WB Yeats as a writer of … Read more

February 15, 2022May 2, 2015 by Orna Ross

Post by Yen Ooi The last day of the London Book Fair and IndieReCon saw the exciting Indie Author Fringe … Read more

April 25, 2022March 12, 2015 by Orna Ross

We’ll begin with the day WB immortalized in his memoirs, when she came calling to his house with her complexion like … Read more

April 6, 2015January 28, 2015 by Orna Ross

What does it mean to be Irish, in these (we hope!) post-nationalist days. And especially if you don’t actually live in Ireland.

February 24, 2022January 11, 2015 by Orna Ross

I promised details last time of the projects I’m going to run this year to celebrate #Yeats2015. 1. First up: … Read more

February 15, 2022November 24, 2014 by Orna Ross

The Irish Nobel-Laureate poet Willie Yeats was 23 years old in 1889, when Maud Gonne came calling to his house … Read more

February 15, 2022November 11, 2014 by Orna Ross

The more I circle the life and work of WB Yeats, the more I’m drawn to wondering about his mother, Susan … Read more

February 24, 2022October 10, 2014 by Orna Ross

I’ve been working for some years on a trilogy about the Irish poet WB Yeats — and I’ll be picking … Read more