When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

During the 1913 Dublin Lock-out he wrote an open letter to the Irish Times criticizing the attitude of the employers then spoke on it in England and helped bring the crisis to an end. Poetry
Voices of the Stones (MacMillian 1925)
Homeward Songs by the Way (Dublin: Whaley 1894)
The Earth Breath and Other Poems (NY&London: John Lane 1896)
The Nuts of Knowledge (Dublin: Dun Emer Press 1903)
The Divine Vision and Other Poems (London: Macmillan; NY: Macmillan 1904)
By Still Waters (Dublin: Dun Emer Press 1906)
Deirdre (Dublin: Maunsel 1907)
Collected Poems (London: Macmillan 1913) (2nd. He is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery Dublin.

George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A. ) was an Irish nationalist writer editor critic poet and artistic painter.