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After the Rising & Before the Fall: American Fiction Awards Finalist

October 13, 2021September 4, 2021 by Orna Ross

I’m delighted that After the Rising & Before the Fall (Centenary Edition) was honoured as an award-winning finalist, in the family … Read more

September 10, 2021September 1, 2021 by Orna Ross

The After the Rising & Before the Fall blog tour begins today. For 10 days, 13 bloggers will be celebrating … Read more

August 30, 2021August 27, 2021 by Orna Ross

Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind, based on a true … Read more

August 30, 2021August 20, 2021 by Orna Ross

Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind (Book 4 of the … Read more

August 3, 2021 by Orna Ross

“Poets should never marry,” Maud Gonne told WB Yeats shortly before she, without telling him, became engaged to another. “The … Read more

October 13, 2021July 30, 2021 by Orna Ross

The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in … Read more

October 13, 2021July 21, 2021 by Orna Ross

Like all young women of her class and time, Maud Gonne was raised to have a wide variety of accomplishments—singing, … Read more

July 9, 2021 by Orna Ross

The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in … Read more

October 13, 2021July 8, 2021 by Orna Ross

The best poetry reading I ever attended took place at the Abbey Theatre in 1992. Reading this Irish Times article … Read more

October 13, 2021July 3, 2021 by Orna Ross

I am a member of the Yeats Society Sligo and horrified to hear from Director Susan O’Keeffe today that its future … Read more