by Orna Ross | May 31, 2021 | FICTION |
Maud Gonne's father, Tommy, was a Cavalry Major, which was how the English born Maud ended up living in Ireland, when he was posted there. In 1879, he was posted to India, and the motherless Maud and her sister Kathleen were moved to relatives in the South of France....
by Orna Ross | May 29, 2021 | FICTION |
There is a new online biography of Maud Gonne for children, created by Sophie Harkin for Lottie.com. Unfortunately, a few of the details are wrong — Maud founded “L'Irelande Libre” in the 1890s, not 1910s, and she never won a Nobel peace prize (that went...
by Orna Ross | Mar 5, 2021 | FICTION |
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by Orna Ross | Feb 26, 2021 | FICTION |
To receive exclusive extracts from this story and give feedback on where it should go next, join my reader patrons here. (from just $2 a month) Dancing in the Wind: The Story So Far The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just...
by Orna Ross | Jan 10, 2020 | FICTION |
The story has shifted to 1916. Maud and Iseult are living in Normandy, as the first world war wages and in Dublin, Irish freedom fighters have organized a botched insurrection. Many of their Irish friends and acquaintances were involved. This extract describes what...