The United Arts Club, located on Upper Fitzwilliam Street, is the venue for the event. The poet, writer, artist, and philosopher assisted in founding the club in 1907.

AE Russell, as he was also called, was a highly esteemed and renowned figure worldwide, and was considered a giant of Irish public life.

Despite spending the majority of his life in Dublin, he was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, in 1867.

When he passed away in England in 1935, Taoiseach Eamon De Valera and WB Yeats led his funeral procession, and he was given special treatment with an aerial flypast as his coffin was transported back to Ireland via Dún Laoghaire.

A bust of Russell may be found in Dublin's Merrion Square, and a perfect duplicate can be found in the former Lurgan Town Hall.

For several years, an annual festival and exhibition have been organised by a group of admirers in the town where he was born, with the goal of increasing awareness of his legacy.

They came from the United States to Co. Donegal in August of this year to attend a conference held in his memory together with other AE enthusiasts.

The new society is the brainchild of Jim Conway, one of the founding members of the Lurgan group.

“It became evident to us after some time that Russell was well-liked by people outside of Lurgan, and we received approaches from people in Ireland, the UK, the US, and even Japan.”

We are trying our best to raise awareness of AE since, after his passing, he was mainly forgotten and slipped into the background of history. Those who are familiar with his life story understand exactly how extraordinarily gifted and influential he was. He is considered the forgotten superstar of Ireland.

“We were astounded by the amount of interest when we staged a convention in the Donegal towns of Marble Hill and Dunfanaghy, where he spent his summers painting.

“It was after that that we decided we would all work together to launch a new national and international AE George Russell Appreciation Society.”

The United Arts Club is expected to be packed, according to the organisers, and aficionados from the US, Japan, and the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Donegal have registered online to attend.

“We're expecting a good crowd in the room as well as a truly international following online,” event organiser Marianne McGee stated.

“It's a great opportunity for enthusiasts to become founder members and get in at the start of something we believe could become quite big.”