16 November 2011

Celtic Resources

I have been reading a wonderful book on pre-Christian Celtic beliefs called Kindling the Celtic Spirit by Mara Freeman.  In the back of the book, she lists a bibliography that is replete with scholarly books about Celtic paganism.  Some of the books are old and obscure, but I hope this list will be helpful.

The Silver Bough: 001 (Canongate Classic): McNeill, Florence Marian
The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition: Nagy, Joseph Falaky   
The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe & Early Ireland & Wales: Koch, John T.
Survivals in Belief Among the Celts: Henderson, George
Cornish Feasts And Folk-Lore: Courtney, Margaret Ann   
The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga: Young, Ella
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain: Bromwich, Rachel
The Other World, According to Descriptions in Medieval Literature: Patch, Howard Rollin
Hibernica Minora: Meyer, Kuno
Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist: Shaw, Margaret Fay
On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Lects., Ed. with an Intr. by W.K. Sullivan: O'Curry, Eugene
Silva Gadelica: A Collection Of Tales In Irish With Extracts Illustrating Persons And Places: O'Grady, Standish H.
Miscellanea hibernica: Burd, Henry Alfred
Old Celtic Romances: Joyce, P.W.
Iona;: A history of the island: McNeill, Florence Marian   
Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry: Meyer, Kuno
Life of Merlin: Clarke, Basil
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth: Graves, Robert
Folk Lore And Folk Stories Of Wales: Trevelyan, Marie
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance: hÓgáin, Dáithí Ó    
Medieval Irish Lyrics: Selected and Translated. With, the Irish Bardic Poet : A Study in the Relationship of Poet and Patron: Carney, James   
The Celtic Poets: Songs and Tales from Early Ireland and Wales: Ford, Patrick K.
Origin of the Grail Legend: Brown, Arthur C.L.
The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends: Briggs, Katharine Mary   
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy: Eliade, Mircea  (not strictly Celtic, follows many cultures)
Wales and the Arthurian legend: Loomis, Roger Sherman   
Crossing the Circle at the Holy Wells of Ireland: Brenneman, Walter L.
Stations of the Sun: Hutton, Ronald
Irish Folktales: Glassie, Henry   
Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community: Glassie, Henry H.
Ancient Irish Tales: Cross, Tom Peete
Early Irish Myths and Sagas: Gantz, Jeffrey   
The Stars of Ballymenone: Glassie, Henry   
Carmina Gadelica: Carmichael, Alexander

Online English and Gaelic Carmina Gadelica: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cg.htm#

Also, there is a website called CELT, which is a searchable database of Irish texts and their translations: http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html 

Blessings,
Bridget Triskele