John Moriarty
Male, Deceased Person
1938 – 2007
Who was John Moriarty?
John Moriarty 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 live-in gardener in the Carmelite monastery at Boars Hill, Oxford. On returning to Ireland, he worked as a gardener again in Connemara and County Galway, and having been given a piece of land, he started building his own house.
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 Dónal Ó Céilleachair was shown in Dublin in October 2012.
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