Welcome to the online home of John Moriarty
John Moriarty was an Irish writer and philosopher acknowledged for his profound insights and perspectives on modern life.
A wonderful first step is to let John speak to you in his own voice in one of the videos below.
Writings by John Moriarty
Invoking Ireland, Ailiu Iath n-hErend was published in 2005, two years before John Moriarty’s death. A challenging, yet accessible and utterly enjoyable compendium of John’s familiar themes, beautifully interwoven through a re-telling and interpreting of myths, folk stories, poetry, Eastern and Western philosophy and spirituality …
Featured Book
For an overview of all of John Moriarty’s published writing, click here.
Writing on Moriarty by Scholars, Critics and Creatives
The John Moriarty’s Institute is pleased to add to our growing archive Time to Reclaim the Legacy of John Moriarty, an essay by Dr Michael W. Higgins. A documentarian, biographer, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Higgins writes perceptively of how ‘Moriarty mined his own history — personal, cultural, spiritual, and anthropological — in order to paint on the larger canvas, to move from the particular to the universal.’
Spotlight: Dr. Michael W. Higgins
News & Events
Moyvane John Moriarty Festival 2024 footage
John Moriarty,
Grounded in Story
‘Return to the Merrie’: Martin Shaw on John Moriarty
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