(George William Russell (10 April 1867  17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), Pivotal Irish Writer, Patron of Artists, Key figure in Irish Cooperative Movement.He was born in Lurgan, County Armagh. He worked many years for the Irish Agricultural Organization Society (IAOS). During the 1913 Dublin Lock-out he wrote an open letter to the Irish Times criticising the attitude of the employers. He was an independent delegate to the 1917-18 Irish Convention Russell was editor from 1905 to 1923 of the Irish Homestead, the journal of the IAOS. He then became editor of the The Irish Statesman, which merged with the Irish Homestead.He used the pseudonym AE, or more properly, Æ. This derived from an earlier Æ'on .PoetryVoices of the Stones (MacMillian 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); Gods of War, with Other Poems (Dub, priv. 1915); Imaginations and Reveries (Dub&London: Maunsel 1915); The Candle of Vision (London: Macmillan 1918); Collected Poems (London: Macmillan 1913) (2nd. edit. 1926); 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) and Autobiography of a Mystic (Gerrards Cross, 1975)NovelsThe Interpreters (1922) and The Avatars (1933)EssaysAE in the Irish Theosophist (1892 97); The National Being : Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity (1916); The Candle of Vision (1918) and Song and Its Fountains (1932)

George Russell (A. E.) (The Irish writers series)

Richard Kain and James H. O'Brien

Bucknell University Press,U.S.

Eimar O'DuffyThe Wasted Island.Printer's Errors The Lion and the Fox.Miss Rudd and Some LoversKing Goshawk and the Birds. 1893 Born September 29, in Dublin, eldest son of Kevin O'Duffy, prominent surgeon dentist.1903-1913 Attends school in England; graduates from University College, Dublin, with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree; becomes a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.1913-1916 Prominent in the Irish Volunteers; has two plays presented by Edward Martyn's Irish Theatre.1919 Publishes first novel, The Wasted Island. 1920 Marries, August 16, Kathleen Cruise O'Brien. 1921 Son Brian born on August 23. 1922 Publishes Printer's Errors and The Lion and the Fox. 1923 Publishes Miss Rudd and Some Lovers. 1924 Daughter Rosalind born on September 14. 1925 Moves to England, then free-lances in Paris and works for an American newspaper. 1926 Publishes King Goshawk and the Birds.

Eimar O'Duffy (The Irish writers series)

Robert Hogan

Literature & Fiction

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Somerville and Ross (The Irish writers series)

Cronin, John

Standish O'Grady, (The Irish writers series)

Marcus, Phillip L.

Dramas & Plays

Douglas Hyde, poet-folklorist, the first president of modern Ireland, and president of the Gaelic League, an organization hoping to revive the Irish language. This work sheds new light on Hyde s birth, his early education, and his relationships at the peak of his literary career with Lady Gregory, Yeats, and others. Gareth W. Dunleavy, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Douglas Hyde (The Irish writers series)

Gareth W. Dunleavy