John Moriarty (writer)
 John Moriarty (2 February 1938 – 1 June 2007) was an Irish writer and philosopher. A native of County Kerry he was educated in Listowel and at University College Dublin. In 1977 he returned to England from Canada where he had taught English literature at the University of Manitoba and became a live-in gardener in the Carmelite monastery at Boars Hill Oxford.Moriarty lived at the foot of Mangerton Mountain in northern County Kerry until his death. His online website was www.johnmoriarty.net.