On Friday 1st June 2018 we mark the 11th year of the death of John Moriarty. The Irish writer, poet, mystic and philosopher was a much beloved figure in Ireland.  The poet Paul Durcan has described Moriarty as ‘the original, radical, non-conformist questioner’. Born in 1938 in Moyvane, Co. Kerry, Moriarty studied philosophy in UCD before lecturing at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He left academia to move to Connemara to work as a gardener. After which he retired to Kerry to live at the foot of the Mangerton Mountain. Initially published by The Lilliput Press in 1994, he became one of the greats within Irish literature. His first book, Dreamtime, delves into Irish…