by Orna Ross | May 31, 2021 | Fiction |
Maud Gonne's father, Tommy, was a Cavalry Major, which was how the English born Maud ended up living in Ireland, when he was posted there. In 1879, he was posted to India, and the motherless Maud and her sister Kathleen were moved to relatives in the South of France....
by Orna Ross | May 26, 2021 | Fiction |
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of the Greek poets and dramatists, and the theories of the Graeco-Roman grammarians, concocted to explain their metres....
by Orna Ross | Apr 30, 2021 | Fiction |
To receive exclusive extracts from this story and give feedback on where it should go next, join my fiction reader patrons here. (from just $2 a month) Dancing in the Wind: The Story So Far The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters...
by Orna Ross | Sep 16, 2020 | Fiction |
I'm reissuing my Irish novels in a centenary edition. It's almost 100 years since the events they describe happened and today Ireland is more than half-way through a ten-year program commemorating “the many significant centenaries” of the decade from 1913 to 1923”,...
by Orna Ross | Sep 9, 2020 | Fiction |
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I've a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish. So I've devised a way to get a little drop of storytelling into each day. I'm going to go public on writing my next novel and start using my Facebook page as my...