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 |
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...
by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2013 | Fiction |
When I was a schoolgirl, I was introduced as all Irish schoolchildren are, to the national poet through ‘He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven,’ in which the Yeats portrays himself as a sort of cosmic Sir Walter Raleigh, laying down the light of the heavens under the...
by Orna Ross | May 5, 2013 | Fiction |
Here's a sneak peek at the novel I'm working on now, The Pilgrim Soul. It's the first in a trilogy about love and loss, based around the lives of the poet, WB Yeats, and the mother and daughter he loved, Maud and Iseult Gonne. The time is Christmas Day, 1893 and WB,...