by Orna Ross | Mar 22, 2018 | Go Creative! |
What Is A Creativepreneur? Creativepreneur is a relatively new job designation, unheard of before the 1990s, and only really taking off with the widespread adoption of smartphones in the past decade. A creativepreneur builds a businesses around a personal mission,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 13, 2013 | Fiction |
On Saturday, I did an interview with Marese O'Sullivan, a young Irish student here in London who is fascinated by the Gonnes' relationship with WB Yeats and wanted to know more about my motivation for writing the trilogy. Marese had a lot of questions, so we're...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2013 | Fiction |
In “A Memory of Youth” Yeats acknowledged how his poetic inspiration had dried until the intervention of “a most ridiculous little bird [who] Tore from the skies his marvelous moon.” The little bird was Iseult Gonne, who saw herself as both pupil and teacher to Yeats....
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2013 | Fiction |
Willie, Maud and Iseult, three of the most imaginative people who ever lived, never imagined the Internet or Twitter. If they were alive today, I imagine Maud would leap on Twitter for PR purposes, Iseult would shun it, and Willie would dismiss it for a time, with a...
by Orna Ross | Nov 4, 2013 | Fiction |
I wrote last time about first hearing of the strange love triangle between WB Yeats, Maud Gonne and her daughter, Iseult. Iseult is less well known than her mother though her life story is equally dramatic, in a different sort of way. Born on August 6, 1894, she was...