The National Being
Russell, George William / Ae![The National Being](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/345/3455555/CHSBZCOP033455555.jpg)
George William Russell, better known as Æ (1867-1935), mystic, poet, painter, journalist, editor, and practical rural economist, was a pivotal figure in the Irish literary revival and in the emergence of modern Ireland.
From the beginning of the twentieth century he formed life-long friendships with W. B. Yeats, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Stephen Mackenna (translator of the Enneads of Plotinus), James Joyce, and other write...