In the nineteenth century, in Ireland, people started to walk away from their native language. In the twentieth century they started to walk away from religion. In this century they are walking away from local accents. Overall the Irish have moved from rites that related them to time and eternity to rights within a body politic. The Chinese say that the sage is to be found not walking ahead of humanity, finding a way for it, but behind it, picking up the inestimable treasures it leaves behind in its flight into an ever-receding future.
In the nineteenth century, in Ireland, people started to walk away from their native language. In the twentieth century they started to walk away from...
The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John Moriarty. The power of Moriarty is that he has found a thousand beautiful ways to say something very disturbing: we have to change our lives. In this small book of big thoughts, award-winning author, mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw situates Moriarty’s work with respect to our...
The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our he...
