by Orna Ross | Sep 1, 2021 | Fiction |
The After the Rising & Before the Fall blog tour begins today. For 10 days, 13 bloggers will be celebrating the release of my centenary edition of this two-books-in-one set and you can buy the book directly from me here. Here's the full tour schedule:...
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 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...
by Orna Ross | Jul 21, 2021 | Fiction |
Like all young women of her class and time, Maud Gonne was raised to have a wide variety of accomplishments—singing, acting, writing, painting and more. Her pictures have appeared widely and a short while ago, a rare piece of creative writing surfaced. “A Life's...