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 15, 2012 | Fiction |
Exciting news from Ireland (for history nerds). Secrets of the 1916 Easter Rising and War of Independence have been revealed by a new project from The Bureau of Military History that focusses on eyewitness accounts of the time. How I would have loved these to have...
by Orna Ross | Oct 3, 2011 | Fiction |
Because I've just been given an exciting new screenwriting opportunity (of which more anon)… and because, as advised by Joanna last week, I need to have my published novels e-reader-ready for Christmas… and because I'm also publishing a poetry book this...