(George William Russell (10 April 1867 17 July 1935) who wrote under 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 .Poetry Voices of the Stones (MacMillian 1925); Homeward Songs by the Way ( Whaley 1894); The Earth Breath and Other Poems (NY & John Lane 1896); The Nuts of Knowledge ( Dun Emer Press, 1903); The Divine Vision and Other Poems (London) Macmillan; Macmillan 1904); By Still Waters ( Dun Emer Press 1906); Deirdre ( Maunsel 1907); Gods of War, with Other Poems (Dub, priv. 1915); Imaginations and Reveries (Dub& Maunsel 1915); The Candle of Vision ( Macmillan 1918); Collected Poems ( Macmillan 1913) (2nd. edit. 1926); Midsummer Eve ( Crosby Gaige 1928); Enchantment and Other Poems ( Fountain; Macmillan 1930); Vale and Other Poems ( Macmillan 1931); Songs and Its Fountains ( Macmillan 1932); The House of Titans and Other Poems ( Macmillan 1934); Selected Poems ( 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)