Starweaver's Online Book Of Shadow: TWO CELTIC READING LISTS

TWO CELTIC READING LISTS

*** Marks especially good books. Read these FIRST!!
This is two lists put together into one file. Please excuse the duplicates of any books.

AAKHUS, PATRICIA;"The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh", Story Line Press, 1990
A.E.(GEORGE RUSSELL); "The Candle of Vision", Quest Books, Theosophical Pub. 1975
ALFORD, VIOLET; "The Hobbyhorse & Other Animal Masks", Merlin Press 1978
AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES; "Guide to Irish Studies in the U.S.A." 1987
ANDERSON, WILLIAM; "The Green Man", Harper Collins 1990
ANWYL, EDWARD; "Celtic Religion in Pre-christian Times", Archibald Constable & Co. 1906 ***
ARTOS, ALLEN; "Arthur, The King of Light", Lorien House 1986
ASHE, GEOFFREY; "The Ancient Wisdom", London 1977
ASHE, GEOFFREY; "Mythology of the British Isles", Metheun 1990
BAIN, GEORGE; "Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction", Dover Pub. 1973
BARBER, CHRIS; "Mysterious Wales", Paladin Press 1983
BERRY, NORENE AND HEATH, JENNIFER, "Cerridwen and the Cauldron of Knowledge,"
BLAMIRES, STEVE, "The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition", Aquarian/Thorsons, 1991
BOASE, WENDY; "Folklore of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight", Rowman & Littlefield 1976
BOND, FREDERICK BLIGH; "The Gate of Remembrance", Thorsen Pub. Ltd. 1978
BONWICK, JAMES; "Irish Druids and Old Irish Religion", Arno Press 1976
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Earth Rites", Grenada 1983 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "The Enchanted Land, Myths and Legends of Britain's Landscape, Thorsons, 1995.
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Mysterious Britain", Grenada 1974 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Sacred Waters", Paladin Books 1986 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "The Secret Country", Grenada 1978 *** BREFFNY, BRIAN DE, ed.; "Ireland, A Cultural Encyclopedia", Thames & Hudson 1983
BREFFNY, BRIAN DE; " The Irish World", Thames & Hudson 1986
BRIGGS, KATHERINE; "Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts", Pantheon 1979
BROWN, PETER, ed. & selected by; "Book of Kells", Alfred A. Knopf 1980
BURL, AUBREY, "The Stone Circles of the British Isles", Yale Univ. Press, 1976
CAHILL, THOMAS, "How the Irish Saved Civilazation" Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 1995
CAMPBELL, J.F. & GEORGE HENDERSON; "The Celtic Dragon Myth", Newcastle Pub. 1981
CARMICHAEL, ALEXANDER; "Carmina Gadelica", Lindisfarne 1992
CARMICHAEL, ALEXANDER; "Celtic Invocations", Vineyard 1972
CASTLEDEN, RODNEY; "The Wilmington Giant", Turnstone 1983
CHADWICK, NORA; "The Celts", Pelician 1970
CHANT, JOY; "The High Kings", Bantam 1983
CHMELOVA, ELENA; "Celtic Tales", Exeter Books 1982
CLARE, T.; "Archeological Sites of Devon & Cornwall", Moorland Pub. 1982
COGHLAN, RONAN; "Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend", Donard Press 1979
COLES, BRYONY & JOHN; "The People of the Wetlands", Thames & Hudson, 1989
COLLUM, PADRAIG; "The King of Ireland's Son", McMillian & sons 1933
COLLUM, PADRAIG; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", Crown Pub. 1967
COLLUM, PADRAIG; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", rev. ed. Killenny Press 1967
CONWAY, D.J.; "Celtic Magic", Llewellyn Pub. 1990
COOKE, GRACE & IVAN; "The Light in Britain", White Eagle Pub. Trust 1983
COWAN, TOM; "Fire In The Head", Harper, 1993.
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, ed.; "Folk Tales of the British Isles", Pantheon, 1985.
CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, KEVIN, ed.; "Mabon of the Mabinogion", Thorsen Pub. 1984
CUNLIFFE, BARRY; "The Celtic World", McGraw Hill MCMLXXIX
CURTAIN, JEREMIAH; "Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland", Dover Books 1975
DAMES, MICHAEL; "The Avebury Cycle", Thames & Hudson 1977
DAMES, MICHAEL; "Mythic Ireland", Thames & Hudson, 1992
DANAHER, KEVIN; "The Year in Ireland", (Leinster Leader, Ltd. 1972) Mercier Press 1972 ***
DANIEL, GLYN & PAUL BAHN; "Ancient Places - The Prehistoric & Celtic Sites of Britain", Constable 1987
DARVILL, TIMOTHY; "Prehistoric Britain", Yale University Press, 1987
DAVIDSON, THOMAS; "Rowan Tree and Red Thread", Edinburgh 1949
DAVIES, EDWARD; "The Mythology & Rites of the British Druids", J. Booth 1809
DELANEY, FRANK; "The Celts", Little Brown & Co. 1986
DELANEY, FRANK; "Celtic Tales",
DILLON, MYLES; "Early Irish Literature", University of Chicago Press 1948
DINNENN, REV. PATRICK S.; "Irish- English Dictionary", Irish Textes Society 1927
DOREY, JACQUES; "Three & The Moon - Legendary Stories of Old Brittany, Normandy, & Provence", Jr. Literary Guild, 1929.
DOUGLAS, RONALD MACDONALD (compiled by) "Scottish Lore and Folklore", Beekman House, 1982
DUGGAN, COLM; "Treasures of Irish Folklore", Mercantile Marketing Consultants, Ltd. 1983
DYER, JAMES; "The Penguin Guide To Prehistoric England & Wales", Penguin Books
ELUERE, CHRISTIANE; "The Celts, Conquerors of Ancient Europe, "Discoveries Series, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Pub 1992, English Translation 1993
ELLIS, PETER BERRESFORD; "The Celtic Empire", Carolina Academic Press, 1990.
ELIIS, PETER BERRESFORD; "The Druids" William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994
ERIUGENA, JOHN SCOTTUS, "The Voice of the Eagle, The Heart of Celtic Christianity," Lindisfarne Press, 1990
EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y.; "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries", University Books 1966 *** FIFE, GRAEME, "Arthur the King," Sterling, 1991
FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Book of Conquests", E.P. Dutton 1978
FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Silver Arm", Paper Tiger Press 1981
FLOWER, ROBIN; "The Irish Tradition", Clarendon Press 1947/1978
FORDE, JOHNSTON J.; "Prehistoric Britian & Ireland", W.W. Norton & Co. 1976
FOSTER, R. F., ed. "The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland," Oxford University Press, 1989
FRENCH, J.M.F.; "Prehistoric Faith and Worship", London 1912
FROUD, BRIAN & ALAN LEE; "Faeries", Harry M. Abrams 1978
GANTZ, JEFFERY; "Early Irish Myths & Sagas", Penguin 1982
GERALD OF WALES; "The History & Topography of Ireland", Penguin 1982
GLASSIE, HENRY; "Irish Folk History", University of Pennsylvania Press 1982
GLASSIE, HENRY; "Irish Folk Tales", Pantheon, 1985
GRAVES, TOM; "Needles of Stone Revisited", Gothic Image 1978
GREEN, MIRANDA; "Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend", Thames & Hudson, 1992
GREGORY, LADY; "Gods & Fighting Men of the Celts", John Murray 1913 ***
GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTA; "Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland", Colin Smythe 1920/1979
GUARD, DAVID, "Dierdre: A Celtic Legend", Celestial Arts 1977
HAWKINS, GERALD; "Stonehenge Decoded", Doubleday 1965
HERM, GERHARD; "The Celts", St. Martin's Press 1975
HIGGINS, GODFREY; "Celtic Druids", Philosohpical Research Society 1977
HILL-ELDER, Isabel; "Celt, Druid, and Culdee", Artisan Sales, 1990
HITCHING, FRANCIS; "Earth Magic", William Morrow & Co. 1977
HUTTON, RONALD; "The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles", Blackwell, 1991
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; "Adventures of Suibhne Geilt", ed. & trans. J.G. O'Keefe 1913
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; "Duanaine Finn", Vol VII, part 1, ed. & trans. Eoin MacNeil
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; Keating, "History of Ireland, Vol 1-4, 1902/1987
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; "Labor Gabala Erenn", parts 1-4, Trans. R.A.S. MacAlister 1941
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; "Poems of Egan O'Rahilly", Rev. P.S. Dinnenn & T.O. Donough 1966
IRISH TEXTES SOCIETY; "Poems on the Marcher Lords", ed. Anne O'Sullivan & Padrain O'Riain 1987
JACKSON, KENNETH HURLSTONE; "A Celtic Miscellany", Penguin 1980
JACKSON, KENNETH HURLESTONE; "The Oldest Irish Tradition; A Window on the Iron Age", Cambridge 1964
JACOBS, JOSEPH; "Celtic Fairy Tales", Dover 1963
JAMES, SIMON; "The World of the Celts," Thames and Hudson, 1993
JONES, GWYN & THOMAS; "The Mabinogion", Dragon's Dream 1982
JOYCE, P.W.; "Social History of Ancient Ireland", Vol 1 & 2 Benjamin Blum Pub. 1968
KERR, MILDRED L., HARNES, ELIZABETH & ROSS, FRANCES; "Giants & Fairies", Charles E. Merrill Co. 1946
KING, JOHN; The Celtic Druids Year, Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts," Blandford, 1994
KINSELLA, THOMAS; "The Tain", Oxford Univ. Press 1969
KNIGHT, GARETH; "The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend", Aquarian Press 1983
KRUTA, VENCESLAS & VERNER FORMAN; "The Celts of the West", Orbis 1985
LAURIE, ERYNN ROWAN, "A Circle of Stones, Journeys and Meditations for Modern Celts," Eschaton, 1995
LEAMY, EDMUND; "Golden Spears", Desmond Fitzgerald 1911
LEHMANN, RUTH P.M.; "Early Irish Verse", University of Texas Press 1982
LOGAN, PATRICK; "The Holy Wells of Ireland", Colin Smythe, Ltd. 1980
LOGAN, PATRICK; "Irish Country Cures", Appletree Press, 1981
LOGAN, PATRICK; "The Old Gods", Appletree Press 1981
LONSDALE, STEVEN; "Animals & the Origin of the Dance", Thames & Hudson 1982
LOOMIS, ROGER SHERMAN; "The Grail, From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol", Constable, 1992
LUCY, SEAN; "Love Poems of the Irish", Mercier Press 1977
MACALISTER, R.A.S.; "Tara; A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland", Charles Scribner & Sons 1931
MACCANA, PROINSIAS; "Celtic Mythology", Hamlyn Pub. 1970
MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "The Mythology of all Races in Thirteen volumes; Celtic, Volume III.", Cooper Square Pub. 1967
MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "Religion of the Ancient Celts", Folcroft Library, 1977 rep.
MACLENNAN, MALCOLM; "A Pronouncing & Emtylogical Dictionary of the Gaelic Language", (Scots Gaelic) Aberdeen Univ. Press 1979
MACMANUS, SEUMAS; "The Story of the Irish Race", Devin-Adair Co. 1981
MACNEILL, MAIRE; "The Festival of Lughnasa", Oxford, 1962
MARKALE, JEAN; "The Celts, Uncovering the Mythic and Historic Origins of Western Culture", Inner Traditions International, 1993
MARKALE, JEAN; "King of the Celts," Inner Traditions International, 1994
MARKALE, JEAN; "Women of the Celts", Inner Traditions International Ltd. 1986
MARRIS, RUTH; "The Singing Swans & Other Irish Stories", Fontana Lions 1978
MARSDEN, JOHN; "The Illustrated Border Ballads, The Anglo-Scottish Frontier," University of Texas Press, 1990
MARSH, HENRY; "Dark Age Britain", Dorset Press 1970
MATTHEWS, CAITLIN; "The Elements of The Celtic Tradition", Element Books 1989
MATTHEWS, CAITLIN AND JOHN; "Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom", Element, 1994
MATTHEWS, JOHN, comp; "A Celtic Reader", Aquarian/Thorsons, 1991
MATTHEWS, JOHH, "The Celtic Shaman," Element, 1991
MATTHEWS, JOHN, ed; "From Isles of Dream, Visionary Stories and Poems of the Celtic Renaissance," Lindisfarne, 1993
MATTHEWS, JOHN; "Song of Taliesin", Aquarius, 1991
MATTHEWS, JOHN; "Taliesin", Aquarius, 1990
MATTHEWS, JOHN, ed: "Within the Hollow Hills, an anthology of New Celtic Writing," Lindisfarne Press, 1994
McANALLY, D. R., JR.; "Irish Wonders," Sterling Publishing Co., 1993
McNEIL, F. MARIAN; "The Silver Bough, Vol 1.: Scottish Folklore & Beliefs", Cannon Gate Classic 1956/1989
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, "Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 BC - 1500 AD (Catalogue of exhibit) 1977.
NICHOLS, ROSS; "The Book of Druidry", Aquarian, 1991
NORTON-TAYLOR, DUNCAN; "The Celts", TIME LIFE BOOKS 1974
O'BRIEN, CHRISTIAN; "The Megalithic Odyssey", Turnstone 1983
O'CONNOR, FRANK; "Short History of Irish Literature", Capricorn Books 1967
O'CONNOR, NORREYS; "Battles & Enchantments", Books for Libraries Press 1922/1970
O'DRISCOLL, ROBERT; "The Celtic Consciousness", George Braziller 1982
O'KELLY, CLAIRE; "Concise Guide To Newgrange, 1976
O' hOGAIN, DR. DAITHI; "Myth, Legend, and Romance; An encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition", Prentice Hall Press, 1991
O'SULLIVAN, DONALD; "Carolan: The Life & Times & Music of an Irish Harper", Vol 1 & 2, Celtic Music 1983
PATERSON, HELENA; "The Celtic Lunar Zodiac", Random Century Group, Ltd., 1992 (Illustrations BEAUTIFUL, text does not seem to correspond with current Celtic scholarly work)
PENNAR, MEIRION, trans.: "The Black Book of Carmarthen", Pennar, 1989
PEPPER & WILCOX; "A Guide to Magical & Mystical Sites - Europe & the British Isles", Harper Colophon Books 1977
POWELL, T.G.E.; "The Celts", Thames & Hudson 1980
QUILLER, PETER & COURTNEY DAVIS; "Merlin, The Immortal", Spirit of Celtia 1984
REES, ALWYN & BRINLEY; "Celtic Heritage", Oxford 1971 ***
REILLY, ROBERT; "Irish Saints," Wings Books, 1964
RHYS, JOHN; "Celtic Folklore, Welsh & Manx, Vol.I"
RHYS, JOHN; "Celtic Folklore, Welsh & Manx, Vol. II", Wildwood House, 1983 (First published by Oxford University Press, 1901).
ROLLESTON, T. W.; "The Illustrated Guide to Celtic Mythology," Studio Editions, Ltd., 1993
ROLLESTON, T.W.; "Myths & Legends - Celtic", Avenel Press 1985
ROMILLY ALLEN, J.; "Celtic Art In Pagan and Christian Times", Braken Books, Studio Editions, Ltd., 1994
ROSS, ANNE, & DON ROBBINS; "The Life & Death of A Druid Prince", Summit 1989
ROSS, ANNE; "Pagan Celtic Britian", Rudledge & Kegen Paul 1967 ***
RUTHERFORD, WARD; "Celtic Lore", Aquarian/Thorsons 1993
RUTHERFORD, WARD; "Celtic Mythology", Aquarian Press 1987
RUTHERFORD, WARD; "The Druids, Magicians of the West", Aquarian Press 1978***
SANGER, KEITH AND ALLISON KINNAIRD, "Tree of Strings, The History of the Harp in Scotland," Kinmore Music, 1991
SCOTT, MICHEAL; "The River Gods," Real Ireland Design, Ltd., 1991
SHARKEY, JOHN; "Celtic Mysteries", Thames & Hudson 1975/1987
SJOESTEDT, MARIE-LOUISE; "Gods & Heroes of the Celts", Methven & Co. Ltd. 1949 ***
SMITH, LESLEY M.; "The Dark Age: The Making of Britian", Schocker Books 1984
SPENCE, LEWIS; "British Fairy Origins", Aquarian Press 1946
SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain", Anchor Press
SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Minor Traditions of British Mythology", Rider & Co. 1948
SQUIRE, CHARLES; "Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance", Newcastle 1975 ***
STEWART, R.J.; "Book of Merlin", Blandford Press 1988
STEWART, R. J.; "Celtic Gods Celtic Goddesses", Blandford, 1990
STEWART, R.J., ed.; "Merlin & Woman", Blandford Press 1988
STEWART, R.J.; "Mystic Life of Merlin", Arcana Press 1986
STEWART, R.J.; "Powers Within the Land", Earth Quest
STEWART R.J.; "Robert Kirk - Walker Between Worlds", Element, 1990
STEWART, R.J.; "The Underworld Tradition", Aquarian Press 1985
STEWART, R.J.; "The Way of Merlin", Aquarian Press, 1991
SUTHERLAND, ELIZABETH; "The Gold Key and The Green Life, Some Fantasies and Celtic Tales by George MacDonald and Fiona MacLeod, Constable, 1986
SUTHERLAND, ELISABETH; "Ravens & Black Rain", Corgi Books 1985 ***
THURNEYSON; "Old Irish Reader", Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1968
TOULSON, SHIRLEY; "The Celtic Year," Element, 1993
TOULSON, SHIRLEY; "The Winter Solstice", Jill Norman & Hobhouse 1981
VAN DE WEYER, ROBERT, "Celtic Fire, The Passionate Religious Vision of Ancient Britain and Ireland," Doubleday, 1990
WHITE, CAROLYN; "A History of Irish Fairies", Mercier Press 1976 ***
WILDE, LADY; "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, & Superstitions of Ireland With Sketches of the Irish Past" Chatto & Windus 1925
WILLIAMS, GWYNN A.; "Madoc, The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America", Oxford Univ. Press 1987
WOOD-MARTIN, W. G.; "Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, Vols 1 & 2", Kennicat Pub. 1902/1970 ***
YEATS, W.B.; "Fairy & Folktales of Ireland", Pan Books 1882 & 1882/ 1973
YEATS, W.B. & LADY GREGORY; "Irish Myth, Legend, & Folklore", Avenel Press 1986
YOUNG, ELLA; "The Wondersmith and His Son", David McKay Co. 1927 Chadwick, Nora, The Celts (Penguin, NY 1991)

Another Reading List

Cross, Tom Peete and Clark Harris Slover, Ancient Irish Tales (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1988)
Cunliffe, Barry, The Celtic World : An Illustrated History of the Celtic Race, Their Culture, Customs and Legends (Greenwich House, NY 1986)
Dames, Michael, Mythic Ireland (Thames & Hudson, NY 1992)
Davidson, H. R. Ellis, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe : Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1988)
Ellis, Peter Berresford, A Dictionary of Irish Mythology (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1991)
Ellis, Peter Berresford, The Druids
Evans-Wentz, W. Y., The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (Citadel Press, NY 1990)
Ford, Patrick K, The Mabonogi and Other Welsh Medieval Tales (University of California Press, Berkeley 1977)
Gantz, Jeffrey, Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin, London 1988)
Gray, Elizabeth A, editor, Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired (Irish Texts Society, vol LIV, Leinster 1992)
Green, Miranda, The Gods of the Celts (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1986)
Green, Miranda, Symbol & Image in Celtic Religious Art (Routledge, NY 1992)
Hutton, Ronald, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles (Blackwell, Cambridge 1991)
Kinsella, Thomas, The Tain (University of Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia 1985)
Laurie, Erynn Rowan, A Circle of Stones (Eschaton, Chicago 1995)
MacCana, Proinsias, Celtic Mythology (Hamlyn, London 1970)
MacCrossan, Tadhg, The Sacred Cauldron (Llewellyn, St. Paul MN 1991)
Mallory, J. P., In Search of the Indo-Europeans (Thames & Hudson, NY 1989)
McNeill, F. Marian, The Silver Bough (Cannongate, Edinburgh 1989)
Merrifield, Ralph, The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic (New Amsterdam Books, NY 1988)
Nagy, Joseph Falaky, The Wisdom of the Outlaw : The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition (University of California Press, Berkeley 1985)
O hOgain, Daithi, Myth, Legend & Romance: An Encyclopedia of the Irish Folk Tradition (Prentice Hall, NY 1991)
Piggot, Stuart, The Druids (Thames & Hudson, NY 1986)
Rees, Alwyn and Brinley, Celtic Heritage : Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales (Thames & Hudson, NY 1994)
Rolleston, T. W., Celtic Myths and Legends (Avenel Books, NY 1986)
Ross, Anne, Pagan Celtic Britain : Studies in Iconography and Tradition (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1967; reprinted 1994)
Ross, Anne, The Pagan Celts (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1986)
Skelton, Robin and Margaret Blackwood, Earth, Air, Fire, Water : Pre-Christian and Pagan Elements in British Songs, Rhymes and Ballads (Arkana, London 1990)

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