by Orna Ross | Apr 7, 2016 | Fiction |
The first recorded Irish stories were Celtic. They presented our world as eternal, represented by the famous knotwork art produced for centuries in Ireland's monasteries. There are fewer stories about the moment of creation in Celtic culture than other tribes but one...
by Orna Ross | Apr 4, 2016 | Fiction |
“It was all ‘father, oh father’,” Bob Geldof says, mimicking a pious female voice addressing a priest. Then in his own voice: “Fuck off, you’re not my father.” Geldof is railing against Irish groveling to the Roman Catholic church in Fanatic Heart, a documentary...
by Orna Ross | Feb 14, 2016 | Fiction
Out today, in ebook: the first book of my WB Yeats – Maud Gonne trilogy in standalone edition. [The special edition edition is now withdrawn in ebook format but I do still have a few hardbacks editions of this gift-book left]. To buy the e-book in your favorite...
by Orna Ross | Aug 20, 2015 | Fiction
The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about the Easter Rising of 1916, what it meant to WB Yeats and what it meant to me, growing up in a small Irish village in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of the Irish...
by Orna Ross | Aug 3, 2015 | Fiction
In a few hours time, I'll launch Secret Rose, my special edition two-in-one book tribute to WB Yeats. I'll write soon about how it went and what I said… (I never know all in advance, so much depends on the group and the energy in the room). What I do know: I'll...
by Orna Ross | Jul 27, 2015 | Fiction
I've gone back to school! I'm writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, after a very fine lecture, “The Epiphanic Yeats” by Dr Matthew Campbell, Professor of English at the University of York....