Male : Poet, painter, mystic and Irish patriot. Married Violet North 1898. Friend of W B Yeats, who introduced him to theosophy

Nationality : N Irish Place of Birth : Lurgan, Co Armagh

Date of Birth : 1867 Date of Death : 1935 Age : 68

Pseudonyms : A E

Other Work : Draper's clerk for 6 years. Edited Irish Homestead 1906-23 & in from 1923-30 the Irish Statesman (with which it merged). Worked for the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society for many years

Education : Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin

1894-1905
Homeward : Songs by the Way (1894 Whaley, Dublin) (1895 Mosher US)
The Earth Breath & Other Poems (1897 John Lane)
The Future of Ireland and the Awakening of the Fires (1897 np, Dublin) - pamphlet
Ideals in Ireland : Priest or Hero ? (1897 np, Dublin) - pamphlet
Co-operative Credit (1898)
Literary Ideals in Ireland (1899) - with Yeats and John Eglinton
An Artist of Gaelic Ireland (1902)
The Nuts of Knowledge : Lyrical Poems, Old and New (1903 Dun Emer, Dundrum)
The Mask of Apollo & Other Stories (1903 Macmillan)
The Divine Vision & Other Poems (1904 Macmillan)
(Ed) New Songs (1904)

1906-1915
Some Irish Essays (1906 Maunsel) - pamphlet
By Still Waters : Lyrical Poems (1906 Dun Emer)
Deidre (1907 Maunsel) - Play
Ireland and Tariff Reform (1909)
The Hero in Man (1909)
(Ed) lyrics by J S Starkey (1910)
The Renewal of Youth (1911 Orpheus Press) - pamphlet
Co-operation and Nationality : A Guide for Rural Reformers (1912 Maunsel) - pamphlet
The Tragedy of Labour in Dublin (1913)
Collected Poems (1913 Macmillan)
Oxford University and the Cooperative Movement (1914)
Ireland, Agriculture and War (1915)
Imaginations and Reveries (1915 Maunsel)
Gods of War with Other Poems (1915 PP, Dublin) - Ltd Ed 100

1916-1920
The National Being : Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity (1916 Maunsel)
Talks with an Irish Farmer (1916) - 12 leaflets
Templecrone : A Record of Cooperative Effort (1917)
Thoughts for a Convention : Memorandum on the State of Ireland (1917)
Salutation : A Poem on the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (1917)
Conscription for Ireland : A Warning to England (1918)
The Candle of Vision (1918 Macmillan)
Literary Imagination (1919)
Michael (1919)
A Plea for Justice, Being a Demand for a Public Enquiry into the Attacks on Co-operative
Societies in Ireland (1920)
The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1920)

1921-1930
Thoughts for British Co-operators, Being a Further demand for a Public Enquiry into the Attacks
on Co-operative Societies in Ireland (1921)
The Inner and Outer Ireland (1921 Talbot Press) - pamphlet
Ireland and the Empire at the Court of Conscience (1921)
Ireland, Past and Future (1922)
The Interpreters (1922 Macmillan)
Voices of the Stones (1925 Macmillan)
Collected Poems (1927 Macmillan)
Midsummer Eve (1928 Crosby Gaige, NY)
Dark Weeping (nd. 1929 Faber Ariel Poem No 19) - 400 signed. Paul Nash
Enchantment & Other Poems (1930 Fountain Press, NY / Macmillan, London) - Ltd Ed 542

After 1931
Vale & Other Poems (1931 Macmillan)
Song and Its Fountains (1932 Macmillan)
Verses for Friends (1932)
The Avatars : A Futurist Fantasy (1933 Macmillan)
The House of the Titans & Other Poems (1934 Macmillan)
Selected Poems (1935 Macmillan)
Some Passages from the Letters of AE to W B Yeats (1936 Cuala Press) - pamphlet
The Living Torch : An Anthology of Prose (1937 Macmillan) - edited by Monk Gibbon
Letters to Minanlabain (1937 Macmillan NY) - Edited by L Porter
Letters from AE (1961 Abelard and Schuman) - edited by Alan Denson

READING
Darrell Figgis : AE - George W Russell - A Study of a Man & a Nation (1916 Maunsel)
(1970 Kennikat, Port Washington, NY)
William M Clyde : AE (1935)
William Magee (pseud of John Eglinton) : A Memoir of A E (1937 Macmillan)
Alan Denson : Printed Writings of George W Russell (AE) - A Bibliography
(1961 NW UP, Evanston, Illinois)
Alan Denson : G W Russell (AE) - A Centennial Assessment (1968 Alan Denson, Kendal)
Hernry Summerfield : That Myriad-Minded Man - A Biography of G W Russell (AE)
(1975 Rowman & Littlefield, NJ) (1976)
Richard M Cain & James H O'Brien : George Russell (AE) (1976 Bucknell UP - Irish Writer's Series)
Robert B Davis : George William Russell (AE) (1977 Twayne, Boston)