George William Russell

George William Russell was born on 10 April 1867 in Lurgan, in County Armagh; his family moved to Dublin when he was eleven. At the city's art school, he became friends with William Butler Yeats. A clerk with a draper, he joined the Dublin Theosophical Lodge in 1890, then in 1897 joined the agricultural co-operative movement, which he went on to preach in rural Ireland. A painter of landscapes and of beings glimpsed, he edited the weekly of that movement and then the one that succeeded it, until 1930. He left Ireland in 1933 and died in Bournemouth on 17 July 1935.

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• EssayThe Candle of VisionGeorge William Russell · 1918Literature