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George William Russell, a.k.a Æ

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George William Russell (April 10, 1867 – July 17, 1935) who wrote under the pseudonym Æ, was an Anglo-Irish supporter of the Nationalist movement in Ireland, a critic, poet, and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of theosophy in Dublin, for many years. He is not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell (1853 - 1919). Image File history File links Attention_yellow. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links G_W_Russell_Bathers. ... Image File history File links G_W_Russell_Bathers. ... Rt. ... is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Anglo-Irish was a term used historically to describe a ruling class inhabitants of Ireland who were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy[1], mostly belonging to the Anglican Church of Ireland or to a lesser extent one of the English dissenting churches, such as the Methodist church. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Theosophy, literally god-wisdom (Greek: θεοσοφία theosophia), designates several bodies of ideas. ... Dublin city centre at night WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Leinster County: Dáil Éireann: Dublin Central, Dublin North Central, Dublin North East, Dublin North West, Dublin South Central, Dublin South East European Parliament: Dublin Dialling Code: +353 1 Postal District(s): D1-24, D6W Area: 114. ... Rt. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Biography

He was born in Lurgan, County Armagh. His family moved to Dublin when he was eleven. He started working as a draper. He worked many years for the Irish Agricultural Organization Society (IAOS), an agricultural co-operative movement founded by Horace Plunkett. The two came together in 1897 when the co-operative movement was eight years old. Plunkett needed an able organiser and W.B. Yeats suggested Russell, who became Assistant Secretary of the IAOS. He was an able lieutenant and travelled extensively throughout Ireland as a spokesman for the society, mainly responsible for developing the credit societies and establishing co-operative banks in the south and west of the country whose numbers rose to 234 by 1910. The pair made a good team each gaining much from the association with the other.^[1] WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Armagh Area: 1,254 km² Population (est. ... Draper is the now largely obsolete term for a merchant in cloth or dry goods, though often used specifically for one who owns or works in a drapers shop or store. ... Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (24 October 1854-1932), was an Irish unionist, later nationalist politician and Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... William Butler Yeats, 1933. ... The Co-operative Banks head office, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester. ...

Russell was editor from 1905-1923 of The Irish Homestead, the journal of the IAOS, and infused it with vitality that made it famous half the world over. He was also editor of the The Irish Statesman from September 15, 1923 – April 12, 1930. He used the pseudonym AE, or more properly, Æ. This derived from an earlier Æ'on signifying the lifelong quest of man, subsequently shortened. is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... n. ... ÆON Co. ...

He met the young James Joyce in 1902, and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats, to whom he was close. He appears as a character in the "Scylla and Charybdis" episode of Joyce's Ulysses, where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... William Butler Yeats, 1933. ... Greek mythology, Scylla, or Skylla (Greek Σκύλλα) was a name shared by two characters, a female sea monster and a princess. ... In Greek mythology, Charybdis, or Kharybdis (sucker down, Greek Χάρυβδις), is a sea monster, daughter of Poseidon and Gaia, who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day and then belches it back out again. ... Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. ... Stephen Dedalus was James Joyces early pen name and the name of the main character of his early novel Stephen Hero. ...

Notes

1. ^ AE and Sir Horace Plunkett J.J.Byrne (The Shaping of Modern Ireland (1960) Conor-Cruise O'Brien) pp. 152-157

Poetry

• Homeward Songs by the Way (Dublin: Whaley 1894)
• The Earth Breath and Other Poems (NY&London: John Lane 1896)
• The Nuts of Knowledge (Dublin: Dun Emer Press 1903)
• The Divine Vision and Other Poems (London: Macmillan; NY: Macmillan 1904)
• By Still Waters (Dublin: Dun Emer Press 1906)
• Deirdre (Dublin: Maunsel 1907)
• Collected Poems (London: Macmillan 1913)
• Gods of War, with Other Poems (Dub, priv. 1915)
• Imaginations and Reveries (Dub&London: Maunsel 1915)
• The Candle of Vision (London: Macmillan 1918)
• Autobiography of a Mystic (Gerrards Cross, 1975), 175pp.;
• Midsummer Eve (NY: Crosby Gaige 1928)
• Enchantment and Other Poems (NY: Fountain; London: Macmillan 1930);
• Vale and Other Poems (London: Macmillan 1931)
• Songs and Its Fountains (London: Macmillan 1932)
• The House of Titans and Other Poems (London: Macmillan 1934)
• Selected Poems (London: Macmillan 1935).

External links

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George William Russell

• Brief biography
• Chronology of Russell's life
• The Candle of Vision (1918)
• Collected Poems by Æ (1913)
• Russell at the Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
• Works by George William Russell at Project Gutenberg
• A. E. at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database