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Reading Lists

This will never be a complete reading list, it is not intended to be. However, this is a very good list of books to start reading.

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There are other books which are listed as are they recommended in many places. Choose with care.

Exceptional Works

Kinsella, Thomas (ed) (1969) The Tain : from the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, Oxford University Press
Carmichael, Alexander (1992) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, Lindisfarne Books
Kondratiev, Alexei (1998) Celtic Rituals : An Authentic Guide to Ancient Celtic Sprituality, New Celtic Publishing, Scotland
Newton, Michael (2000) A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World, Four Courts Press
Ross, Anne (2000) Folklore of the Scottish Highlands, Arcadia
Sjooetedt, Marie-Louise (1949) Celtic Gods and Heroes, Dover Publications
Patterson, Nerys Thomas (1994) Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Univ of Notre Dame Press
Ó hÓgáin, Dáithi (2001) The Sacred Isle : Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland, Boydell & Brewer

Good Works

Matthews, John (ed) (1991) A Celtic Reader : Selections from Celtic Legend, Scholarship and Story, Aquarian Press
Gantz, Jeffrey (ed) (1981) Early Irish Myths and Sagas : (Penguin Classics), Penguin
Matthews, John (ed) (1996) The Druid Source Book : From Earliest Times to the Present Day, Blandford
Matthews, John (ed) (1999) The Celtic Seers` Source Book : Vision and Magic in the Druid Tradition, Blandford
Caesar, Julius (1999) The Gallic Wars : Oxford World's Classics, Oxford
Chadwick, Nora (1971) The Celts, Penguin Group
Cunliffe, Barry (1997) The Ancient Celts, Penguin
Cunliffe, Barry (1974) Iron Age Communities in Britain, Book Club Associates
Ellis, Peter Berresford (1994) The Druids, Constable and Company
Gregory, Lady Augusta (1904) Lady Gregory's Complete Irish Mythology, Smithmark Publishers
Herodotus (1974) The Histories, Penguin
Laing, Lloyd and Laing, Jennifer (1993) The Picts and the Scots, Sutton Publishing
Lavin, Patrick (1999) The Celtic World : An Illustrated History from 700 B.C. to the present, Hippocrene Books
MacBain, Alexander (1998) Etymological Dictionary of Scottish-Gaelic, Hipprocrene Books
MacManus, Seumas (1921) The Story of the Irish Race : A Popular History of Ireland, Wings Books, New York
Matthews, Caitlin and John (1994) The Encylopaedia of Celtic Wisdom : The Celtic Shaman`s Sourcebook, Element
Meyer, Kuno (1994) The Voyage of Bran : A Facsimile Reprint, Llanerch Publishers
Piggot, Stuart (1968) The Druids : Ancient People and Places Series, W.W. Norton & Company
Raftery, Barry (1994) Pagan Celtic Ireland : The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age, Thames and Hudson
Rees, Alwyn Rees and Rees, Brinley (1961) Celtic Heritage : Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales, Thames & Hudson
Ross, Anne (1967) Pagan Celtic Britain : Studies in Iconography and Tradition, Academy Chicago Publishers
Ross, Anne (1970) Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts, Carousel