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 23, 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 9, 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 8, 2021 | Fiction |
The best poetry reading I ever attended took place at the Abbey Theatre in 1992. Reading this Irish Times article Irish Women's Poetry: Making and Remaking History by Ailbhe Darcy took me back there. “Women poets have always done crucial work in our national...