‘Yeats was the mage, but AE was the sage’: Why George William Russell deserves to be a household name again
A luminous centre of the Irish literary renaissance, a figure of world importance
George William Russell
Writer also known as AE
AE in the US: a tale of mutual admiration
AE was welcomed as a man with something to say to Americans about their own predicament
Hidden Aeons: Searching for a literary relic
Poet and mystic George Russell’s pen-name AE came from the word ‘Aeon’, a word he found in a book in the National Library. Was it this book I held in my hands?
George Russell (AE) and Easter Rising: a pacifist poet’s view of poets’ revolution
Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s Ambassador to London, highlights a poet who was not as gifted as Yeats but whose inclusive approach to the events of 1916 was ahead of his time
March 23rd, 1912
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The many facets of George Russell, aka AE, poet, painter, mystic, and editor of the Irish Homestead, the …
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