George William Russell
✓ Source-basedrisingIrish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter (1867-1935)
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George William Russell, who wrote with the pseudonym Æ, was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years.
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Plaque on 84 Merrion Square, Dublin where Æ once worked (now 'Plunkett House')
Bathers by Æ (1918)![Theosophist mural painted by Russell and Yeats, in the drawing room at 3 Ely Place, Dublin, former meeting place of the Theosophical Society. The painting shows nature spirits among a heavenly Deva (above) and a kneeling man over a terrestrial globe (below). Between them, a winged angelic being might represent an Augoeides or Yeats' daimon.[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Mural_painting_%28left_part%29_by_W._B._Yeats_and_George_William_Russell_%28%C3%86%29%2C_with_Theosophical_themes._In_the_Drawing_Room%2C_at_3_Ely_Place_Upper%2C_Dublin_%28former_meeting_place_for_the_Theosophical_Society%29.png)
Theosophist mural painted by Russell and Yeats, in the drawing room at 3 Ely Place, Dublin, former meeting place of the Theosophical Society. The painting shows nature spirits among a heavenly Deva (above) and a kneeling man over a terrestrial globe (below). Between them, a winged angelic being might represent an Augoeides or Yeats' daimon.[17]
Detail of a Theosophical mural painting by Russell and Yeats
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About this person
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United KingdomCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1867 to 1935 · aged 68
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