John Moriarty (Attorney General)
By Katherine he had eight children: Joan Denise Moriarty (1910?–1992), the well-known ballet dancer, dance teacher and musician, was his niece, the daughter of his brother Michael and Marion McCarthy.Although he supported the Liberals, unlike many barristers he did not regard party politics as a path to career advancement and showed little interest in acquiring a seat in the House of Commons.In 1914 he was made a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland but served less than two years before dying suddenly in May 1915 at Droitwich while on a visit to England.This picture may well be exaggerated; Healy himself admits that Moriarty was a fine Law Officer during a period of acute political tension, when he had to deal with the Dublin Lock-out and the formation of the Irish Volunteers.On the other hand, Maurice Healy, despite his very low opinion of Moriarty, points out fairly that he was not a party to the action and therefore had no opportunity to defend himself against the charge of fraud.