 The Warnecke's settled in Dublin where George became the "resident patriarch" of the Irish-Australian Society.His last years were increasingly marked by deafness and illness, but he continued writing up until his death.When he died in Dublin's Meath Hospital at the age of 86, he left three books unfinished, his memoirs entitled "Miracle Magazine", a work on "Australianism, as identified by press, politics and religion", and a biography of John Macarthur for which he had received a grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.