Orna Ross

A literary family drama with a murder at its heart. When Mercy Mulcahy was 40-years-old, she was accused of killing her elderly and tyrannical father. Now, at the end of her life, she has written a book about what really happened on that fateful night of Christmas Eve, 1989. The tragic and...

What happens when a woman is haunted by the sins of her foremothers—and the men who betrayed them? Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the Irish village she fled 20 years ago. A trunk of letters and diaries left by her...

"Orna Ross is a major poet and deserves the world's attention." (Robin Cutler, Ingram Spark) "An experienced and adroit writer who effortlessly demonstrates the far-reaching things language can do." (Kaleem Raja, The View From Here Literary Review) "Reaches into the corners of your soul and...

Here are poems that offer shifting interpretations of identity, poems that rework ancient Irish blessings, poems about life and liberty and the conditions for happiness....

After 20 years away, Jo Devereux flies home to Ireland for her mother’s funeral—the mother she hasn’t spoken to for more than two decades. Every minute there reminds her of all the reasons she left, and she has no desire to reacquaint herself with her home village....