A.E. (George Russell): He claimed to be a clairvoyant, able to observe various spiritual beings, which he also incorporated into his art. His books, such as ‘The Candle of Vision’ also display his luminous excursions into the Otherworld, which include prophetic visions, precognition, past-life & astral journeys, all pervaded by a heightened awareness of the beauty that often permeates our mundane world.

She held weekly salons & began to write poerty and prose around this time. Coole Park similarly became a perfect place to entertain many of these interesting & creative people during the summer, and fostered what later became known as The Irish Literary Revival. Both W.B. & Jack Yeats, Æ,George Moore, John Millington Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, Katharine Tynan and Violet Martin among others, visited Coole Park, many even carving their initials onto a Copper Beech tree in the grounds, which still stands today and is known as ‘The Autograph Tree’.

Oscar wrote short stories, drama, dialogues, became a critic and also a journalist. He was especially known for his sharp wit, extremely ostentatious dress and his sparkling conversation, becoming one of the best known celebrities of that time. He is particularly remembered for his colourful witticisms, his many plays , such as ‘The Importance of being Earnest’, and his novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’.

Yeats was a symbolist poet, who wrote extensively about Irish myth and folklore. His first works were very ornate & pre-Raphaelite in tone, focusing upon love, the mystical or the esoteric, but then he began to write more epic poetry, such as the ‘Isle of Statues’ & ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’. His later work nevertheless reflected his much earlier interest in the mystical and especially spiritualism.

She wrote of idyllic rural Ireland & romantic fiction, but it was her poetry that really won her critical acclaim & respect. George Russell (Æ), writing the foreward to her ‘Collected Poems’  in 1930, described her as “The earliest singer in that awakening of our imagination which has been spoken of as the Irish Renaissance”. In her lifetime she would write over 100 novels (One report saying that she could actually write one novel per month!), more than a dozen books of poetry, twelve collections of short stories, several volumes of her autobiography and many newspaper articles.

He wrote his famous book ‘The Dubliners’, a collection of 15 short stories which in 1914 was finally published in London, by Grant Richards. He had written a lesser-known book ‘Stephen Hero’, an autographical novel. Many of the original ideas from this book were reused in his second book ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’, then published in 1916. He is regarded as one of the most important writers of this century, contributing to the modernist avant-garde. He wrote three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism and his published letters.