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John Moriarty: Grounded in Story

John Moriarty: Grounded in Story

Edited by Amanda Carmody & Mary McGillicuddy

Author: John Moriarty
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John Moriarty was an original, a thinker, a poet, a mythologian. He was born and reared just outside the little village of Moyvane in north Kerry. Growing up on his parent’s farm he was attuned to the rhythms of weather and soil from his youth. Having graduated from college and university, having outgrown the academic life of a lecturer in Canada, he would eventually return to Ireland, to Connemara, and later to Mangerton mountain, to discover his bush soul. 

Tracing the extraordinary journey from Moriarty’s challenges with Christianity to his reconciliation of self and soul, Grounded In Story is centred in Moyvane, his home place which lives and speaks through him, with him, in him. Beautifully illustrated by his niece Amanda Carmody, Grounded In Story is a necessary book, a guide into the world, and the wisdom, of this extraordinary man. 

The intention behind this selection of writing is to bring John Moriarty home to Moyvane, to demonstrate the influence of his native place on the development of his thought and to introduce, in his own words, the culture and the characters that had such a profound effect on him. 

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ISBN: 9781843519263

Extent: 216

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About the Author

John Moriarty was born in Kerry on 2 February 1938 and died there on 1 June 2007. He was educated at St Michael’s College, Listowel, and University College Dublin. He taught English literature at the University of Manitoba in Canada for six years, before returning to Ireland in 1971.

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About the Editors

Amanda Carmody is a niece of John Moriarty, a daughter of his youngest sister, Phyllis. Her connection with John began on his visits home and deepened in later years when he returned to live at Coolies, on the side of Mangerton mountain, near Killarney. Since his death she has immersed herself in his writing and is currently chairperson of the John Moriarty Institute for Ecology and Spirituality.

Mary McGillicuddy, originally from Cork, has lived and worked in North Kerry for the past forty years. During a long career in education she made the acquaintance of the extended family of John Moriarty, and eventually of John himself. Fascinated by both his story and his message she embarked on a voyage into his books.