by Orna Ross | Feb 26, 2021 | Fiction |
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by Orna Ross | Feb 19, 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, Yeats, “having come to 50...
by Orna Ross | Feb 15, 2019 | Fiction |
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by a working-class Irish Parisienne, Rosie. Iseult Gonne has been dispatched to London by her mother, Maud Gonne, to get her longtime friend and one-time suitor, WB...
by Orna Ross | Jan 2, 2017 | Go Creative! |
What I do Send you copies of my books as I finish them, for you to read and hopefully enjoy. What You Do If you enjoy the book, you: Leave an honest review on Goodreads and your favorite online bookstore. It doesn’t have to be very in-depth, a couple of sentences and...
by Orna Ross | Apr 4, 2016 | Fiction |
“It was all ‘father, oh father’,” Bob Geldof says, mimicking a pious female voice addressing a priest. Then in his own voice: “Fuck off, you’re not my father.” Geldof is railing against Irish groveling to the Roman Catholic church in Fanatic Heart, a documentary...