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George William Russell ( April 10 , 1867 - July 17 , 1935 ) who wrote under the Pseudonym '''Æ''', was an Irish Nationalist , critic, Poet , and painter. He was also a mystical writer, and centre of a group of followers of Theosophy in Dublin , for many years. He is not to be confused with George William Erskine Russell ( 1853 - 1919 ). BIOGRAPHY He was born in Lurgan , County Armagh . His family moved to Dublin when he was eleven. He started working as a draper. He worked for the Irish Agricultural Organization Society, a cooperative sponsored by Sir Horace Plunkett , for which he travelled extensively throughout Ireland as a spokesman for the society, establishing cooperative banks in the west of the country. Russell was editor of ''The Irish Homestead'' from 1905-1923 and ''The Irish Statesman'' from September 15 1923 - April 12 1930 . He used the pseudonym AE, or more properly, Æ . This derived from an earlier '' Æ'on '' signifying the lifelong quest of man, subsequently shortened. He met the young James Joyce in 1902 , and introduced him to other Irish literary figures, including William Butler Yeats , to whom he was close. He appears as a character in the " Scylla and Charybdis " episode of Joyce's '' Ulysses '', where he dismisses Stephen's theories on Shakespeare. POETRY
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