by Orna Ross | Jun 3, 2022 | Fiction |
One thing I love about writing historical fiction is doing the research. I often have to stop myself digging too deep while I'm working. I love the thrill of following a trail and getting to know new people, and the interconnections between them. This week I’ve been...
by Orna Ross | Aug 27, 2021 | Fiction |
Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind, based on a true story about the controversial love triangle between WB Yeats, his longtime muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter Iseult. As three talented mavericks try to redeem...
by Orna Ross | Aug 20, 2021 | Fiction |
Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind (Book 4 of the Yeats-Gonne series), based on a true story about the controversial love triangle between WB Yeats, his longtime muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter Iseult. As three...
by Orna Ross | Aug 3, 2021 | Fiction |
“Poets should never marry,” Maud Gonne told WB Yeats shortly before she, without telling him, became engaged to another. “The world should thank me for not marrying you.” The other man was John MacBride, in every way WB's opposite. A soldier instead...
by Orna Ross | Jul 30, 2021 | Fiction |
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in Dublin, and the three characters we first met in Her Secret Rose are deeply unsettled. The world famous poet, WB Yeats, “having come to 50 years” has decided...