|
Recommended Reading List
The following books represent the finest and most authoritative sources of knowledge on traditional Gaelic cultures available today. Each is a peer reviewed, academically pertinent text, and in some cases, contains the primary sources of ancient texts. This list is the product of 25 years of intensive study.
If you are thinking about adding any of these books to your collection, then please consider buying from our link. The money earned will help keep this website afloat. Thank you.
Irish:
Festival of Lughnasa by Máire MacNeill 
 The Rites of Brigid: Goddess & Saint by Sean O Duinn
Irish Customs and Beliefs by Kevin Danaher
Folktales from the Irish Countryside by Kevin Danaher
Silva Gadelica: A Collection Of Tales In Irish With Extracts Illustrating Persons And Places by Standish H. O'Grady (Editor)
Holy Wells of Ireland by Patrick Logan (Author), Jim O'Callahgan (Illustrator)
Tales Of Sacred Wells In Ireland (Folklore History Series) by Jane Francesca Wilde
Scottish:
A Handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World
Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave
Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic
The Gaelic Otherworld: John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
The Silver Bough Volume 1: Scottish Folklore and Folk-Belief
The Silver Bough Volume 2: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Candlemas to Harvest Home
The Silver Bough Volume 3: A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals - Hallowe'en to Yule
The Silver Bough Volume 4: The Local Festivals of Scotland
Ancient Celtic Culture (with an emphasis on the Goidelic):
Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice by Dr. Bruce Lincoln
Myth, Legend, and Romance: An Encyclopaedia of Irish Folk Tradition by Dr. Daithi O Hogain
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge
The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal: To the Land of the Living (Forgotten Books)
The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga, Volume 2 - Primary Source Edition
Cath Maige Tuired: Second Battle of Mag Tuired (Irish and English Edition)
CATH MAIGE TUIRED, The Second Battle of Mag Tuired
The metrical Dindsenchas
The Metrical Dindsenchas Volume 2 - Primary Source Edition
The Sacred Isle: Pre-Christian Religions in Ireland
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts by Dr. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
The Scholar's Primer: Auraicept na n-Eces: being the texts of the ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster by George Calder
Ogygia: Or, A Chronological Account Of Irish Events by Roderic O Flaherty (Author), Rev James Hely (Translator) 
Cattle Lords and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland by Dr. Nerys T. Patterson
Uraicecht na Riar: Poetic Grades in Early Irish Law (English and Irish Edition) by Liam Breatnach (Editor) 
A Guide to Early Irish Law (English and Irish Edition) by Fergus Kelly
|
