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CELTIC CRAFT READING LIST - 6 JULY 1991
Rowan Moonstone
*** Marks especially good books. Read these FIRST!! Keep in mind,
this is simply a listing of the books that I have found useful.
Question everything.
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
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
BAIN, GEORGE; "Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction", Dover Pub.
1973
BARBER, CHRIS; "Mysterious Wales", Paladin Press 1983
BOASE, WENDY; "Folklore of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight", Rowman
& Littlefield 1976
BONWICK, JAMES; "Irish Druids and Old Irish Religion", Arno Press
1976
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "The Secret Country", Grenada 1978 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Mysterious Britain", Grenada 1974 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Earth Rites", Grenada 1983 ***
BORD, JANET & COLIN; "Sacred Waters", Paladin Books 1986 ***
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
BRIGGS, KATHERINE; "Nine Lives; Cats in Folklore", Rudledge & Kegen
Paul 1980
BROWN, PETER, ed. & selected by; "Book of Kells", Alfred A. Knopf
1980
CAMPBELL, J.F. & GEORGE HENDERSON; "The Celtic Dragon Myth",
Newcastle Pub. 1981
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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.; "Archelogical Sites of Devon & Cornwall", Moorland Pub.
1982
COGHLAN, RONAN; "Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend", Donard Press
1979
COHANE, JOHN PHILLIP; "The Key", Crown Pub. 1969
COLLUM, PADRAIG; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", Crown Pub. 1967
COLLUM, PADRAIC; "Treasury of Irish Folklore", rev. ed. Killenny
Press 1967
COLLUM, PADRAIC; "The King of Ireland's Son", McMillian & sons 1933
CONWAY, D.J.; "Celtic Magic", Llewellyn Pub. 1990
COOKE, GRACE & IVAN; "The Light in Britain", White Eagle Pub. Trust
1983
COSMAN, MADELEINE, PELNER; "Medieval Holidays and Festivals",
Charles Scribmer & Sons 1981
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 ***
DANAHER, KEVIN; "The Year in Ireland", (Leinster Leader, Ltd. 1972)
Mercier Press 1972 ***
DANIEL, GLYN & PAUL BAHN; "Ancient Places - The Prehistoric &
Celtic Sites of Britian", Constable 1987
DAVIDSON, THOMAS; "Rowan Tree and Red Thread", Edinburgh 1949
DAVIES, EDWARD; "The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids",
J. Booth 1809
DELANEY, FRANK; "The Celts", Little Brown & Co. 1986
DILLON, MYLES; "Early Irish Literature", University of Chicago
Press 1948
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DINNENN, REV. PATRICK S.; "Irish- English Dictionary", Irish Textes
Society 1927
DUGGAN, COLM; "Treasures of Irish Folklore", Mercantile Marketing
Consultants, Ltd. 1983
DYER, JAMES; "The Penguin Guide To Prehistoric England & Wales",
Penguin Books
EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y.; "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries",
Universtiy Books 1966 ***
FELL, BARRY; "America, B.C.", Wallaby Books 1976
FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Silver Arm", Paper Tiger Press 1981
FITZPATRICK, JIM; "The Book of Conquests", E.P. Dutton 1978
FLOWER, ROBIN; "The Irish Tradition", Clarendon Press 1947/1978
FORDE, JOHNSTON J.; "Prehistoric Britian & Ireland", W.W. Norton
& Co. 1976
FRAZIER, SIR JAMES GORDON; "The Golden Bough", (The Macmillan
Company, 1951) Avenel 1981
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", Penquin 1982
GERALD OF WALES; "The History & Topography of Ireland", Penquin
1982
GLASSIE, HENRY; "Irish Folk History", University of Pennsylvannia
Press 1982
GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTA; "Visions and Beliefs in the West of
Ireland", Colin Smythe 1920/1979
GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTA; "Gods and Fighting Men of the Celts", John
Murray 1913 ***
GUARD, DAVID, "Dierdre: A Celtic Legend", Celestial Arts 1977
HERM, GERHARD; "The Celts", St. Martin's Press 1975
HIGGINS, GODFREY; "Celtic Druids", Philosohpical Research Society
1977
HOPE, MURRY; "Practical Celtic Magic", Aquarian Press 1987
IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Poems of Egan O'Rahilly", Rev. P.S. Dinnenn
& T.O. Donough 1966
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IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Duanaine Finn", Vol VII, part 1, ed. &
trans. Eoin MacNeil
IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; Keating, "History of Ireland, Vol 1-4,
1902/1987
IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Adventures of Suibhne Geilt", ed. & trans.
J.G. O'Keefe 1913
IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Poems on the Marcher Lords", ed. Anne
O'Sullivan & Padrain O'Riain 1987
IRISH TEXTES SOCIECTY; "Labor Gabala Erenn", parts 1-4, Trans.
R.A.S. MacAlister 1941 ***
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
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 &
Faires", Charles E. Merrill Co. 1946
KINSELLA, THOMAS; "The Tain", Oxford Univ. Press 1969 ***
KNEIGHTLY, THOMAS; "The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and
Other Little People", Avenel Press 1978
KNIGHT, GARETH; "The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend",
Aquarian Press 1983
KRUTA, VENCESLAS & VERNER FORMAN; "The Celts of the West", Orbis
1985
LEAMY, EDMUND; "Golden Spears", Desmond Fitzgerald 1911
LEHMANN, RUTH P.M.; "Early Irish Verse", University of Texas Press
1982
LOGAN, PATRICK; "The Old Gods", Apple Tree Press 1981
LONSDALE, STEVEN; "Animals & the Origin of the Dance", Thames &
Hudson 1982
LUCY, SEAN; "Love Poems of the Irish", Mercier Press 1977
MACALISTER, R.A.S.; "Tara; A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland",
Charles Schribner & Sons 1931 ***
MACCANA, PROINSIAS; "Celtic Mythology", Hamlyn Pub. 1970
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MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "Religion of the Ancient Celts", Folcroft
Library, 1977rep.
MACCULLOCH, JOHN ARNOTT; "The Mythology of all Races in Thirteen
volumes; Celtic, Volume III.", Cooper Square Pub. 1967
MACLENNAN, MALCOLM; "A Promouncing & 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; "Women of the Celts", Inner Traditions International
Ltd. 1986
MARRIS, RUTH; "The Singing Swans & Other Irish Stories", Fontana
Lions 1978
MARSH, HENRY; "Dark Age Britain", Dorset Press 1970
MATTHEWS, CAITLIN; "The Elements of The Goddess", Element Books
1989
MATTHEWS, CAITLIN; "The Elements of The Celtic Tradition", Element
Books 1989
McNEIL, F. MARTIN; "The Silver Bough, Vol 1.: Scottish Folklore &
Beliefs", Cannon Gate Classic 1956/1989
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'SULLIVAN, DONALD; "Carolan: The Life & Times & Music of an Irish
Harper", Vol 1 & 2, Celtic Music 1983
PEPPERS & WILCOCK; "A Guide to Magical & Mystical Sites - Europe
& the British Isles", Harper Colophon Books 1977
POWELL, T.G.E.; "The Celts", Thames & Hudson 1980
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QUILLER, PETER & COURTNEY DAVIS; "Merlin, The Immortal", Spirit of
Celtia 1984
REES, ALWEN & BRINLEY; "Celtic Heritage", Oxford 1971 ***
RHYS, JOHN; "Celtic Folklore, Welsh & Manx, Vol.I"
ROLLESTON, T.W.; "Myths & Legends - Celtic", Avenel Press 1985
ROSS, ANNE; "Pagan Celtic Britian", Rudledge & Kegen Paul 1967 ***
ROSS, ANNE, & DON ROBBINS; "The Life & Death of A Druid Prince",
Summit 1989 ***
RUTHERFORD, WARD; "Celtic Mythology", Aquarian Press 1987
RUTHERFORD, WARD; "The Druids, Magicians of the West", Aquarian
Press 1978 ***
SEYMOUR, ST. JOHN; "Irish Witchcraft and Demonology", 1913
SHARKEY, JOHN; "Celtic Mysteries", Thames & Hudson 1975/1987
SJOESTEDT, MARIE-LOUISE; "Gods and Heroes of the Celts", Methven
& Co. Ltd. 1949 ***
SMITH, LESLEY M.; "The Dark Age: The Making of Britian", Schocker
Books 1984
SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Minor Traditions of British Mythology", Rider
& Co. 1948
SPENCE, LEWIS; "The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain", Anchor Press
SPENCE, LEWIS; "British Fairy Origins", Aquarian Press 1946
SQUIRE, CHARLES; "Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance",
Newcastle 1975 ***
STEWART, R.J.; "Book of Merlin", Blandford Press 1988
STEWART, R.J., ed.; "Merlin & Woman", Blandford Press 1988
STEWART, R.J.; "Mystic Life of Merlin", Arcana Press 1986
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STEWART, R.J.; "The Underworld Tradition", Aquarian Press 1985
SUTHERLAND, ELISABETH; "Ravens & Black Rain", Corgi Books 1985 ***
THURNEYSON; "Old Irish Reader", Dublin Institut for Advanced
Studies 1968
TOULSON, SHIRLEY; "The Winter Solstice", Jill Norman & Hobhouse
1981 ***
WHITE, CAROLYN; "A History of Irish Fairies", Mercier Press 1976
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WHITLOCK, RALPH; "In Search of Lost Gods", Phaidon Press 1979
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
WILLIAMSON, JOHN; "The Oak King, the Holly King & the Unicorn",
Harper & Row 1974 ***
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
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