by Orna Ross | Jul 1, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
July is an exciting month, as we're set to launch our Kickstarter campaign to bring ‘More Than A Muse' to life and honour Maud Gonne with a statue in Dublin on the 22nd. I'll be featuring WB Yeats poems to Maud Gonne for the month on the blog to celebrate....
by Orna Ross | Jun 21, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Fiction |
I tumbled across this great interview of Maud Gonne, with Dr Eileen Dixon, in which she talks about the land wars of the 1880s. From the RTE archive, it was recorded on 28 December 1945, and in it Maud Gonne MacBride describes witnessing evictions in her youth, and...
by Orna Ross | Jun 17, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
UPDATED JULY 8 2024: This campaign aims to connect a body of people who intend to see Maud Gonne honoured with a statue in Dublin. January 2: a group of readers and writers, artists and historians began to investigate why Maud Gonne had not been honored with a statue...
by Orna Ross | Jun 13, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS, Poetry |
Back to my old London haunts tonight, as a guest #poet at the #WBYeats birthday poetry night hosted by @anne_marie_fyfe and Cahal Dallat, with special guest @thejeremyvine …plus guest poets. We were asked to do a “heart poem”. I chose this one, a sonnet I...
by Orna Ross | Jun 7, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
Maud Gonne, an extraordinary figure in Irish history, has received some acknowledgement for her contributions to Ireland's political and cultural landscape. As an ardent nationalist, suffragist, and muse to W.B. Yeats and many others, Gonne's legacy is profound and...
by Orna Ross | Jun 3, 2024 | 2. NON-MEMBER POSTS |
Welcome to June, the middle month of the year. Solstice month, the summer solstice for us in England (June 21st). Father's Day month (June 16th). Juneteenth month (19 June). And a month in which history will be commemorating the D-Day landings which happened on June...