John Moriarty

JOHN MORIARTY, writer and philosopher, was born in Kerry in 1938 and educated at Listowel and University College Dublin. He taught English literature at Manitoba University in Canada for six years, before returning to Ireland in 1971. Sometime gardener, lecturer and broadcaster, in 1997 he hosted a major RTE television series, 'The Blackbird and the Bell'. He is author ofDreamtime(1994/99), and the two other volumes ofTurtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron(1996) andAnaconda Canoe...See more

JOHN MORIARTY, writer and philosopher, was born in Kerry in 1938 and educated at Listowel and University College Dublin. He taught English literature at Manitoba University in Canada for six years, before returning to Ireland in 1971. Sometime gardener, lecturer and broadcaster, in 1997 he hosted a major RTE television series, 'The Blackbird and the Bell'. He is author ofDreamtime(1994/99), and the two other volumes ofTurtle Was Gone a Long Time: Crossing the Kedron(1996) andAnaconda Canoe(1998). He lives down from the Horse's Glen at the foot of Mangerton Mountain in north Kerry. See less