What is "moriarty"

Moriarty is an Irish surname

Moriarty is a French-American musical group formed in 1995.

The name Moriarty is an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Muircheartaigh which originated in County Kerry in Ireland. Ó Muircheartaigh can be translated to mean navigator or sea worthy, as the Irish word muir means sea ( cognate to the Latin word mare for 'sea') and cheart means correct. Several people have the Irish name Moriarty, mostly as a surname.

Using documentary evidence, flavoured by legend, researchers have isolated historical data using books by O'Hart, McLysaght and O'Brien, the Four Masters, baptismals, parish records, and ancient land grants. Despite the loss of records caused by the fire in the Dublin Records Office in 1922 which was an irreparable disaster to Irish historians, sufficient evidence is still available to produce a thumbnail sketch of the Moriarty history.

Conclusions by these researchers show that the family name Moriarty was first found in county Kerry.

Spelling variations of the names were found in the archives researched, particularly when families attempted to translate the name from the Gaelic to the English. Although the name Moriarty occurred in many references, from time to time the surname was also officially recorded as Moriarty, O'Moriarty, Murtagh, Murtag, McMoriarty, O'Murtagh, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred, even between father and son. Preferences for different spelling variations usually arose from a division of the family, or for religious reasons, or sometimes patriotic reasons. Church officials and scribes spelt the name as it sounded, sometimes several different ways in the lifetime of the same person. The abbreviations of Mc in front of a name, meaning 'son of' is popular in Irish names, although this is no guarantee that the name is Irish. Many Scottish names also prefer Mc instead of Mac. Officially in both countries, the abbreviation is Mac. In Ireland, frequently O' is also used instead of Mc but meaning the same, that is, 'son of'.

Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by author Anthony Horowitz, and was published on the 23 October 2014. It is the sequel to The House of Silk. The author has stated via Twitter that Moriarty will take place in 1891, after the events of Doyle's " The Final Problem", and that Sherlock Holmes will only appear at the end of the novel. Moreover, those detectives that Sherlock has worked with in previous cases, such as Athelney Jones and Lestrade, will be present. The novel follows Frederick Chase and Athelney Jones as they try to prevent a new criminal mastermind taking over the streets of London after Moriarty's demise.