The National Being. Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity. Dublin: Maunsel, 1916. First Edition. Pp 176, uncut. Cloth ruled and title in gilt, lightly faded.

Signed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

George Russell presents a synthesis of his ideas on non-militant nationalism, spiritual concerns, and idealistic principles.

“The National Being” is his major work on Irish nationalism, published just after the 1916 Easter Rising.

George Russell, nationalist, writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter, who wrote under the pseudonym “A.E.”