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George William Russell

Birthdate:
Birthplace: William Street, Lurgan, co.Armagh, Ireland
Death: July 17, 1935 (68)
Stagsden Nursing home,Westcliff Road, Bournemouth, England
Place of Burial: Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Elias Russell and Mary Anne Armstrong
Husband of Violet North
Father of Brian William Angus Russell and Diarmuid Conor Russell
Brother of Mary Elizabeth Russell

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About George William Russell

George William Russell

George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, artistic painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a mysticism writer, and a personage of a group of devotees of theosophy in Dublin for many years.

His poetry

  • Voices of the Stones (Macmillan 1925)
  • 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) (2nd. edit. 1926)
  • 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).
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George William Russell's Timeline

1867
April 10, 1867
William Street, Lurgan, co.Armagh, Ireland
April 22, 1867
Lurgan, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
1899
January 1899
Dublin, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
1902
December 1902
Dublin, Dublin City, Dublin, Ireland
1935
July 17, 1935
Age 68
Stagsden Nursing home,Westcliff Road, Bournemouth, England
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Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium