by Orna Ross | Mar 12, 2021 | Fiction |
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by Orna Ross | Feb 15, 2019 | Fiction |
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by a working-class Irish Parisienne, Rosie. Iseult Gonne has been dispatched to London by her mother, Maud Gonne, to get her longtime friend and one-time suitor, WB...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2018 | Fiction |
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet WB Yeats, Maud Gonne has decided to marry another. In this extract, she breaks the news to her daughter Iseult, whom she has placed in a convent so she can...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2018 | Fiction |
For the past year or so, I have been adapting a novel to script. Every Friday morning I meet my son who works in film and together we do some screenwriting and the usual sort of creative support stuff that creatives need. He's helped me to shape the second part of my...
by Orna Ross | Jul 10, 2018 | Fiction |
As you know, I've been writing a film script for a while, Dancing In The Wind, based on the strange love triangle between based on the true story of the love triangle between the illustrious Irish poet, WB (WILLIE) YEATS, his longtime inamorata and muse MAUD GONNE,...