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John Moriarty was a man who was gloriously indefinable – a writer, philosopher, teacher, gardener, poet, mystic, ordinary man – and ultimately, and surprisingly, a missionary in the tradition of the early Irish monks. He was a missionary for a newly-imagined Christianity, one that might go back to its roots to include Taoists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, atheists, scientists, plants and animals, the Earth, the stars and the galaxies. This Christianity could heal what he called ‘the bog sadness’ of the world; it could enable us to ‘walk beautifully on the earth’ and to be content with the Paradise that can be known in the here-and-now. This Christianity would help to grow and nourish a sense of soul. ‘What is wrong,’ he asked, ‘about emerging into a sense of wonder?’ Moriarty’s work can be daunting; McGillicuddy’s book is an attempt to provide a key – to open the door into his genius, ensuring that his legacy will not be lost

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'Eva O Cathaoir's panoramic survey is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the movement from secretive beginning on St Patrick's Day 1858 to enigmatic end in the mid-1920s. Rejecting depictions of Fenianism as mere pastime , all she demands of the reader is that it be taken seriously. She succeeds brilliantly in showing that most historians have underestimated the soldiers of liberty as, in the end, the authorities did. Her comprehensive history of the bold Fenian men will be seen as an important landmark. It will also prove an invaluable source-book, thanks not least to its short biographies of a thousand Munster and Kilkenny Fenians and its resonant and comprehensive list of our Fenian dead .' -CORMAC O'GRADA, author of Black '47 and Beyond (Princeton, 1999) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton, 2006).

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Originally from Cork, Mary McGillicuddy 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.

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