‘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 and epic work … the voice of a major contemporary figure in Irish literature.’ – David Lorimer ‘In a land of extraordinary literary talent, I think John ... Read moreMoriarty is Ireland’s most important writer since Samuel Beckett.’ – Thomas Moore ‘John Moriarty weaves an extraordinary tapestry of myths and memories … He has none of the dangerous certainty of the wide-eyed mystic and writes with grace and subtlety.’ – Fintan O’Toole ‘White-water rafting with John Moriarty down the canyons of the collective psyche, readers will have their preconceptions and perceptions scoured to a dazzle … Even dissenters like myself can be profoundly grateful to John Moriarty, for he has gone farther down the backstairs to hell and up the front steps to heaven than most of us dare to follow.’ – Tim Robinson Show Less