Creativity and its Contexts

Two poets, a playwright and a novelist - Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Frank McGuiness and Anita Desai - explore in these essays aspects of the imaginative process as each has experienced it: four major writers, four sensibilities, four ways of seein...

Dreamtime: Revised Edition

REPRINT NOW AVAILABLE This is a revised and enlarged edition of John Moriarty's first published work, which has been out of print since 1994. A Book of Revelations mediated by stories and personal excursions in literature, philosophy and sacred wr...

Invoking Ireland

'Asking Irish people to reconnect with their deepest springs, Moriarty reads the Tales in the light of a modern depth-psychology of which most Celtic scholars are still quite innocent. His commentaries are like the unleashing of lost ancestral forces...

John Toland's 'Christianity not Mysterious' Text, Associated Works and Critical Essays

'An invaluable publication. How excellent it is to have Toland's own writing available.'
- New Humanist

On 11 September 1697, Christianity not Mysterious was burned in Dublin by order of Parliament. Three hundred years later, this seminal t...

Navigations: Collected Essays 1976-2006

This new selected edition of Kearney's writings on Ireland supplants his seminal text, The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (a revised Introduction appears here), and extends Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture to which eight piece...

Navigations: Collected Irish Essays 1976-2006

This new selected edition of Kearney's writings on Ireland supplants his seminal text, The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (a revised Introduction appears here), and extends Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture to which eight piece...

Night Journey to Buddh Gaia

'John Moriarty is Ireland's most outstanding philosopher-theologian since Bishop Berkeley in the eighteenth century.' - PAUL DURCAN

'It is hard to convey the sheer erudition and richness of content of John Moriarty's remarkable a...

Nostos

To commemorate the fourth anniversary of the death of celebrated Irish writer and philosopher John Moriarty, we have reprinted his acclaimed autobiography Nostos. 

In this astonishing volume of autobiogra...

One Evening in Eden

'In a land of extraordinary literary talent, I think John Moriarty is Ireland's most important writer since Samuel Beckett.' -Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

'It is hard to convey the sheer erudition and richness o...

Serious Sounds

A wonderful walk through the story of Moriarty's childhood growing up on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with traditional Catholic sacraments, taking as his point of departure Philip Larkin's poem 'Church Going'...

Turtle Was Gone A Long Time, Volume Three: Anaconda Canoe

Anaconda Canoe concludes a remarkable spiritual journey undertaken in volumes one and two, in which Turtle dives to the floor of the abyss to recover hidden intuitions about the world in a journey from ignorance to knowledge, darkness to light, from p...

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time, Volume Two: Horsehead Nebula Neighing

Turtle Was Gone a Long Time: Horsehead Nebula Neighing, the second volume of a remarkable trilogy, continues John Moriarty's spiritual journey embarked upon in Crossing the Kedron. In a Prelude to Horsehead Nebula Neighing, the author poses two qu...

What the Curlew Said: Nostos Continued

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'This is a mighty book in every sense of that mighty word mighty. This book is almost seven hundred pages, but that is a straw compared with the scale of its contents - its stories, its poems, its memories, its pray...