Life
Founder of Irish National Ballet; b. Liverpool, dg. of parents from Mallow, Co. Cork; estb. ballet school in 1934; moved to Cork, 1940.
Criticism
Ruth Fleischmann, ed., Joan Denise Moriarty: Founder of Irish National Ballet: Material for a History of Dance in Ireland (Cork: Mercier Press 1998), 272pp., 16 ills.