John Moriarty (2 February 1938 – 1 June 2007) was an
Irish
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writer
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and
philosopher.
A native of
County Kerry, he was educated in
Listowel
Listowel ( ; , IPA: lʲɪsˠˈt̪ˠuəhəlʲ is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the CSO Census 2016.
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and at
University College Dublin
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. In 1974, he moved to England from Canada where he had taught English literature at the
University of Manitoba
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, Oxford.
Moriarty subsequently lived at the foot of
Mangerton Mountain
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in
County Kerry until his death.
A film "inspired by the works" of Moriarty, ''Dreamtime, Revisited'', was directed by Dónal Ó Céilleachair and Julius Ziz and released in October 2012.
Books
*''Dreamtime'' (Dublin,
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
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, 1994 - revised 1999)
*''Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
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, 1996)
*''Horsehead Nebula Neighing'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 1997)
*''Anaconda Canoe'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
1999)
*''Nostos'' (autobiography) (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
2001)
*''Invoking Ireland: Ailiu Iath n-hErend'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 2005)
*''Slí na Fírinne'' (Slí na Fírinne Publishing, 2006)
*''Night Journey to Buddh Gaia'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 2006)
*''Serious Sounds'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 2007)
*''What the curlew said. Nostos continued'' (autobiography) (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 2007)
*''One Evening in Eden'' (
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
"Noble above nobility"
, image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg
, subdivision_type = Country ...
, 2007) - a CD box set containing a collection of stories narrated by Moriarty
Interviews
A series of interviews of Moriarty, by
Joe Duffy
Joseph Duffy (born 27 January 1956) is an Irish broadcaster employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). One of RTÉ's highest-earning stars, he is the current presenter of ''Liveline'', an interview and phone-in chat show broadcast on R ...
on the
RTÉ radio show ''Liveline'', are available as an iTunes podcast.
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References
External links
The greatest Irish thinker you’ve never read? It could be this man- The Irish Times, 13 June 2019.
John Moriarty Institute for Ecology and Spirituality"Kerry poet and philosopher John Moriarty dies, aged 69" - IrelandOn-Line by Peter Clare (30 August 2007)
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1938 births
2007 deaths
Alumni of University College Dublin
Irish scholars and academics
Irish expatriates in Canada
Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom
Irish gardeners
Irish writers
People from Listowel
Roman Catholic writers
University of Manitoba faculty
20th-century Irish philosophers