John Moriarty (writer)

John Moriarty (2 February 1938 – 1 June 2007) was an Irish writer and philosopher.

A native of County Kerry, he was educated in Listowel and at University College Dublin. In 1977, he returned to England from Canada where he had taught English literature at the University of Manitoba, and became a live-in gardener in the Carmelite monastery at Boars Hill, Oxford.

Moriarty lived at the foot of Mangerton Mountain in northern County Kerry until his death. His online website was www.johnmoriarty.net. A film, Dreamtime, Revisited, directed by Lithuanian born Julius Ziz and Macroom native Dónal Ó Céilleachair was shown in Dublin in October 2012.

Books

• Dreamtime (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994 - revised 1999)
• Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron (The Lilliput Press, 1996)
• Horsehead Nebula Neighing (The Lilliput Press, 1997)
• Anaconda Canoe (The Lilliput Press 1999)
• Nostos (autobiography) (The Lilliput Press 2001)
• Invoking Ireland: Ailiu Iath n-hErend (The Lilliput Press, 2005)
• Slí na Fírinne (Slí na Fírinne Publishing, 2006)
• Night Journey to Buddh Gaia (The Lilliput Press, 2006)
• One Evening in Eden (The Lilliput Press, 2007) - a CD box set containing a collection of stories narrated by Moriarty

Interviews

A series of interviews of John by Joe Duffy on the RTE radio show Liveline, available as an iTunes podcast here

External links

• Official website
• Lilliput Press, the author's publisher
• "Kerry poet and philosopher John Moriarty dies, aged 69" - IrelandOn-Line
• RTÉ lyric fm: Artszone - Denis Costello pays tribute to the life and work of John Moriarty, RTÉ (7 July 2007)
• RTÉ Radio 1: Dialogue - tribute to Moriarty, including a conversation (1998) with Andy O'Mahony
• Obituary - obituary for John Moriarty written in 'The Guardian' newspaper, by Peter Clare (30 August 2007)