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
***

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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