A Hut at the Edge of the Village: Manchán Magan in conversation with Martin Shaw (on John Moriarty)

Award-winning author, mythologist & storyteller Martin Shaw is joined by writer, documentary-maker & author of the rip-roaring Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan come together for the launch of A Hut at the Edge of the Village.
Martin and Manchán have a lively discussion about John Moriarty, the Irish philosopher that Martin credits as being 'one of Ireland's greatest secrets'. Manchán speaks to us of how Martin 'digs down into the dusty bits and refreshes them' and describes Martin's introductions on John as having the same 'wildness, boldness and vivacity as Moriarty's writings'.
Buy A Hut at the Edge of the Village by John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw with a foreword by Tommy Tiernan: www.lilliputpr...

[@kenneth1767]

Ordered a copy of John's book. I'm beginning to understand through these conversations who I am: a mythographer.

[@davidoconnor8769]

'You're entering the marvelous'. This is so well observed.
One of the concepts Moriarty put forward that still gives my bones a tingle is the idea of entering an undimenesionable universe that he called Fodhla. Geographically it may exist at the foot of Mangerton or in the wilds of Connemara but it could just as easily be a feeling one has. Like being at home in a dream. Personally I get this sense some evenings on the Curragh Plains, which John called simply a flat place. But as he often said; don't be afraid to find your own valley or your own river or your own mountain. Your own portion of eternity.
Thanks for a wondering talk. Both Martin and Manchan are special voices in our current age. The seeds of Celtic wisdom are beginning to sprout again.

[@diarmuidlyng8]

Beautiful

[@geraldinehughes4490]

Greetings gentleman, So thrilled that you brought Wallace Black Elk into your extraordinary conversation and invitation. I hade the privilege to attend a healing sweat lodge ceremony that Mr. Black Elk and his wife Grace preformed in Ashland Oregon somewhere around 1980-81. Also, I lived on a piece of land in the Colorado Rocky Mountains where Wallace and his people kept a Sacred Buffalo Skull, cosmic indeed. I carry those holy experiences in my pouch. Hope to walk Ireland, seeing I have ancestry on the Green Isle, somewhere! I appreciate you. Aim high, Geraldine Hughes

[@joanbowman708]

Brilliant, loving, kind and so rich. Dr. Shaw of John Moriarty: "rescuer of thrown away stories'.

[@peterstickland5166]

wonderful chatter here. Thank you.

[@colleenpassard6599]

It’s a wonder-full book. Thank you!

[@EamonnSheehy]

Excellent listening to this, and definitely an illuminating discussion on John Moriarty. Fingers crossed his work will float further out there.

[@wendyholmes1848]

Conjuring up great names in this conversation. Lovely talk.

[@eamonbreathnach4613]

I had the privilege of meeting John Moriarity a couple of times

[@mmcarolan]

Lovely conversation. Moriartys work is becoming essential, however it needs introduction as it's challenging to dive in. Mary McGillicudy has also written a wonderful book, shaped around his biography, providing excellent insight and opening to John's work.

[@antonyfarrell4169]

The salmon of knowledge

[@2msvalkyrie529]

More like a tin of John West .!

[@rachellane2836]

There's no audio?

[@johnpurcell7525]

It was people like Manchan who founded the Irish State can anybody out there make head or tail of it all