by Orna Ross | Apr 27, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, FICTION |
I noticed while calendar rummaging this week that today, as well as being the birthday of one of my oldest friends (Happy Birthday Buts!), is the death anniversary of two of my favorite Irishwomen. Both the activist Maud Gonne and the poet Eavan Boland died on April...
by Orna Ross | Mar 17, 2024 | POETRY |
Maud Gonne was a formidable activist and generous philanthropist, whose feminism and nationalism altered the course of Irish history, but she is still best known as the muse of the first Irish nobel laureate for literature, the great poet WB Yeats. This post is about...
by Orna Ross | Feb 27, 2024 |
by Orna Ross | Feb 27, 2024 |
by Orna Ross | Feb 9, 2024 | - NON-PATRON POSTS, #StatueforMaudGonne, FICTION, Gonne-Yeats Series |
Does Maud Gonne deserve a statue in Dublin? Of course she does and a group of writers and readers, artists and historians, are starting a campaign to bring this long overdue monument into being in a prominent Dublin location. We believe Maud Gonne deserves this public...