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 29, 2021 | Fiction |
There is a new online biography of Maud Gonne for children, created by Sophie Harkin for Lottie.com. Unfortunately, a few of the details are wrong — Maud founded “L'Irelande Libre” in the 1890s, not 1910s, and she never won a Nobel peace prize (that went...
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 | May 21, 2021 | Fiction |
Willie Yeats was not the only poet to be attracted to Iseult Gonne. His young secretary, Ezra Pound, though married, also set about winning her favour and in the same way–through their shared love of books and writing. This is another snippet from my work in...
by Orna Ross | Sep 17, 2011 | Fiction |
The Story So Far: From the ‘Advanced Psychotherapeutic Facility’ in upstate New York to which her father, Mack, has admitted her, Mel McIntyre mines family history and her own memory for details of a 20-year-old tragedy: the death of baby sister, Tara. Mel has...