by Orna Ross | Sep 3, 2017 | Fiction |
The first chapter of After The Rising 1995 The thick double door beneath the sign – Parle’s Bar & Grocery – is shut. A For Sale board juts from the side wall, with a Sale Agreed banner across it. The blinds are down, as if the house, too, has closed its eyes and died....
by Orna Ross | Aug 27, 2017 | The Rest |
Her Secret Rose is about the famous love triangle between the Irish poet WB Yeats, his muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter, Iseult. The extract below is doubly fictionalized, being a summary in my novel of events Yeats related in one of his own short stories The Secret...
by Orna Ross | Jul 21, 2017 | Fiction |
If you're looking at that picture and wondering: is that the image from the back cover of WB Yeats' The Secret Rose in tattoo, the answer is yes. That's Lovely Son above and yes! that is a tattoo of the Secret Rose symbol, on his chest. And it's a great example of...
by Orna Ross | Dec 3, 2016 | Fiction |
Just out: Footage of the Historical Fiction panel at The Triskele Literary Festival in London, back in September. Together with Radhika Swarup, JD Smith and Alison Morton, I was interviewed about the joys of writing historical fiction. Between us, we covered 3rd...
by Orna Ross | Nov 5, 2016 | Fiction |
On October 25th, which also happens to be the night the Man-Booker prize winner was announced this year, I won my own first prize as a novelist. It's not likely that you'll have heard of that award, for three reasons. It's an Irish prize, this is its first year in...