Saltwater fella

Moriarty, John

Viking Australia

Smith tells the tale of the complicated birth of this popular American opera.

The Ballad of Baby Doe: I Shall Walk Beside My Love

Arts & Photography

Smith, Duane A.

Music

Univ Pr of Colorado

First produced at the Central City Opera House in 1956, "The Ballad of Baby Doe" is now widely considered a classic and is the second most produced American opera. In The Ballad of Baby Doe, Duane A. Smith tells the tale of the complicated birth of this most American of operas.
Inspired in 1953 by composer Douglas Moore's interest in Horace Tabor's story and funded by the Central City Opera House Association, the opera came together through a unique combination of hard work and serendipity. Smith relates how key people - including investors and historians in addition to creative talent - turned Moore's idea into a reality and brought the story of the Tabors to millions of opera fans worldwide. In addition, Smith compares the opera's libretto with historical reality, and the book even includes a chapter on the production written by John Moriarty, who conducted the opera in 1981, 1988, and 1996.
For anyone interested in opera history or this Colorado story in particular - the emblematic tale of silver millionaire Horace Tabor and the two women he married - The Ballad of Baby Doe will be the definitive history for years to come.

The Ballad of Baby Doe: "I Shall Walk Beside My Love"

Performing Arts

University Press of Colorado

Spectrum

Mentor Books

"Find me. I will wait. Capture my heart. I will capture yours. Take this moment to tell me one secret. Breathe this life into your soul. Angels come when we are ready. Find me."
 Repeatedly, throughout this moving and extraordinarily objective memoir, author John Moriarty returns to this simple and beautiful mantra. From a childhood of fear and rejection, Moriarty fled into adulthood fueled by ever-increasing doses of alcohol, cocaine, and prescription drugs. Solace and safety could always be found and reality postponed in another bottle of vodka. Until he died. And awoke. And realized. That somewhere inside him lay a life, wasted but aching to begin.
John Moriarty is a freelance writer living in Kansas City, Missouri.

Liquid Lover

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Alyson Books

Essays on classic Irish tales emphasizing the need to remember and appreciate that which came before.

Invoking Ireland

History

Europe

The Lilliput Press

A wonderful walk through the story of Moriarty's childhood on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with traditional Catholic sacraments, taking as his point of departure Philip Larkin's poem `Church Going'-a richly meditative essay of extraordinary resonance that begins with a visit to the island of Inis Fallen on Loch Leine, Ireland. ""Quintessentially Irish and universal.""-Irish News.""Moriarty has drawn together the mysticism of [Australian aboriginals] with that of Christian Europeans.""-Irish Echo

Serious Sounds

Religion & Spirituality

This extra-ordinary work of autobiography concludes the story of John Moriarty's life in Connemara during the 1980s and the return to his native Kerry. He relates the particularities of his time at Toombeloa, Roundstone and environs, where he worked restoring gardens and building his own house. He describes his adopted family and the children of the household, with sorties to Dublin for Christmas; his neighbourhood and community; the writer Tim Robinson; returned pine martens, the fish and flora of a historic landscape; a lecture tour in Canada, organized by his former students; his engagement with the immensities of the natural and spiritual worlds. He calls to account the literatures and legacies of European thought made manifest in the western extremities of Ireland as they bear witness to his own inner and outer journey, now documented in this compelling and writerly masterwork.

What The Curlew Said: "Nostos" Continued

Memoirs

In Introducing Moriarty Canadian theologian and academic Michael W. Higgins compiles the essential writings of Irish philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty. This distillation of Moriarty's texts on ecology, mysticism and spirituality is a perfect introduction to the work of this complex and, at times, esoteric philosopher. Higgins' commentary provides an excellent guide to one of the country's most enigmatic modern thinkers and is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Irish philosophy and spirituality.

Introducing Moriarty

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Review\n"This is a book of thoughts which will sate a hunger many do not yet realise they have." —Réamonn Ó Ciaráin, Books Ireland\n"John Moriarty’s musings on life real and imagined [are] skillfully edited by Martin Shaw." —Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times\n"To have someone like Martin Shaw act as a guide through the safari of John’s imagination is a great blessing … We are lucky to have him emerging into our consciousness right now, still writing, still probing, still gifted." —Tommy Tiernan\nBuy the highly anticipated new collection of Moriarty’s writings, exploring place, love and wildness. Edited by Martin Shaw.

A Hut at the Edge of the Village

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