The Bog Shaman: Manchán on Moriarty

Sep 29 2024 7 ep. 14 mins 21
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A celebration of the wild and wonderful Co. Kerry philosopher John Moriarty. Manchán Magan engages with clips of his recorded talks.
Produced by Ronan Coleman

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Ep. 7 Our Reptilian Brain

Sep 29 2024 15 mins  
The fear inside of us is one with that of the fear of colts of buffaloes and chicks of hawks. We are being led by our past terrors.Support the showlilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty johnmoriarty.ie manchan.cominstagram.com/manchanmagan Produced by Ronan Coleman

Ep. 6 Miasmas of the Mind

Sep 29 2024 10 mins  
More wisdom from the great bouffant-haired philosopher of the ditches and dairy yards. The Doctor Who of West KerrySupport the showlilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty johnmoriarty.ie manchan.cominstagram.com/manchanmagan Produced by Ronan Coleman

Ep. 5. Obligatory dream sequence, feat. Robert Sheehan & Aisling Rogerson

Sep 29 2024 21 mins  
To help guide me through the mire of Moriarty's meandering mind I called upon the help of Robert Sheehan of this reality and beyond, and Aisling Rogerson of The Fumbally.Support the showlilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty johnmoriarty.ie manchan.cominstagram.com/manchanmagan Produced by Ronan Coleman

Ep. 4 In Praise of Crookedness

Sep 29 2024 17 mins  
We're back with the great Swami Moriarty – Ireland’s Ram Dass, our very own Terence McKenna. Wondering what Yeats would have made of him. Would he have thought he had stumbled upon an actual druid? Had him plucked, stuffed and mounted in the National Museum?So many big questions in such a short space of time, such as are there bulbs of emerald green consciousness within us? And

Ep. 3 Luring night-walkers and horses to the yard

Sep 29 2024 14 mins  
Moriarty explains how a river can call itself back into the eternity out of which it came, and leads us into a time that is older than the time of chronometers. Meet John's mother, a sovereignty goddess, with her womb of turf and eggs, and his father, king of the byre, haggard, and pig sty, basking in the low light of his lantern hanging from a nail in the rafter. Support the showl

Ep 2. The Dumbledore of Irish deep-thinking on Commonage Consciousness

Sep 18 2024 10 mins  
Moriarty, the Dumbledore of Irish deep thinking, connects an Inuit hunting ritual to the Christian mass and from there bounces off to a memory of cattle being loaded near Galway train station. He addresses the notion of sinning against a blade of grass and the risks of living from the mathematical forefront of our brainsSupport the showlilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty joh

Ep 1. Hailstones in your Face

Sep 18 2024 8 mins  
'All ground is holy ground,' says the great John Moriarty, the great Kerryman who was half-carnival huckster, half bottle-eyed druid, with a little bit of narcissistic Catholic bishop thrown in. Listen up as he tells us to 'come home to earth' and to 'enfranchise the universe'. Where else would you get it?Support the showlilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty johnmoriarty.ie ma