Bibliography

(Note: Still under construction - many works remain to be added. Check back from time to time.)


CLASSICAL WRITERS  (Where known, book, volume, & section are cited, & translation.)


Ammianus Marcellinus, c. 4th century AD


Appian, Illyrica, Vol. IV


Arrian, c. 1st century AD


Athanaeus


Ausonius 


Caesar, Caius Julius, De Bello Gallico, translated by S. A. Handford, Penguin, 1951


Decimus Magnus


Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, V, 29 , 3 &  4- 5  -  c. 1 st century BC


Diogenes Laertius


Festus, Rufus Avienus, Ora Maritima and Epitome, XLIII.


Pliny, Historiae Naturae, IV, 27.


Hecataeus


Herodotus, Historiae


Hippolytus 


Lampridius


Livy, Historiae, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, Penguin, 1951.


Lucan, Pharsalia.


Lucian of Samostrata


Pausanias, Guide to Greece, Vol. I Trans. Peter Levi, Penguin, 1971.


Plutarch, Lives, (Marius).


Polybius, Historiae trans. W. R. Paton, Howard Univ. Press, 1922.


Pomponius Mela,     ?   , III, 5.


Poseidonius of Apemia (c. 135 - 51 BC), Ethnography.  (Lost, but reconstructed by Tierney [below] Quoted by many, incl. Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Athanaius, etc.)


Pytheas of Massilia, Voyages.


Strabo, Geographica, IV, 4, 2, & VII, 2.  - c. 1st century BC


Suetonius


Tacitus, P. Cornelius, Historiae, translated by Kenneth Wellesley, Penguin, 1976, also, Germania, and Annals of Imperial Rome, 


Vergil, Aeneid, Book VIII. c. 1st Century AD




THE ANCIENT CELTS


Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Painting, Nordenfolk, C., NY Braziller


Celtic Civilization, Markale, J. 


Celtic Heritage, Rhys, A. & B.


Celtic Miscellany, Jackson, K. H., Penguin


Celtic Mythology,  Maccana, P., London, Hamlyn, 1970

 

The Celts, Chadwick, Norah, Penguin 


The Celts, Herm, Gerhard, NY, ST. Martin's Press, 1975


The Celts, Powell, T.G.E., NY, Praeger, 1969 


The Celts, Emergence of Man, Time/Life Books  


The Druids, Piggott, S., Penguin


The Druids, Ellis, Peter B., Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdman's, 1994


Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts, Ross, A., London, Batsford, 1970 


The Celtic World, Cunliffe, B., McGraw Hill, 1979 



ALBA (SCOTLAND)


The Highland Clans, Moncrieffe, I. & Hicks, D., Bramhall House


Culloden, Prebble, John, Penguin


Glencoe,  Prebble, John, Penguin


The Highland Clearances,  Prebble, John, Penguin


The Lion in the North,  Prebble, John, Penguin


Mutiny,   Prebble, John, Penguin


Montrose, Buchan, John, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1949 


Setts of the Scottish Tartans, Stewart, D. C., Shepheard & Walwyn



BREIZ (BRITTANY)


Bardach Breiz


CYMRU (WALES)


Mabinogion, trans. by Patrick Ford, UCLA Press


EIRE (IRELAND)


Cuchullain of Muirthemne,  Lady Gregory


Course of Irish History, Moody & Martin, NY, Weybright & Talley, 1967


Fundamental Irish History, Murray, EJ, NY, Vantage, 1974


Gods & Fighting Men, Lady Gregory.


History of Ireland, Gill & Macmillan, 1972 


Ireland in Pre-Celtic times, Macalister, RAS, Blom, 1970


The Irish World, deBreffny, B. (ed.) Abrams, NY,1977


Jacobite Ireland, Simms, J.G., U. of Toronto, 1969 


Old Irish & Highland Dress, McClintock, H.E.


Short History of Ireland, Beckett, J.C., London, Hutchinson, 1967 


Tain Bo Cuailgne - (Cattle Raid of Cooley) trans. Thomas Kinsella



PERIODICALS


Binchy, D. A., The Linguistic and Historical Value of the Irish Law Tracts, Proceedings of the British Academy, XXIX, (1943) 195-227.


Tierney, Brian, The Celtic Ethnography of Poseidonius; Translations of the Texts of Athanaeus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Caesar,  Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 60, 1960



MUSICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY


Armstrong, Robert Bruce, The Irish and Highland Harp, Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1904.


Breathanach, Breandan, Irish Folk Music and Dances, Cork & Dublin, Mercrier Press,1977.


Bunting, Edward, Ancient Irish Music, Dublin: W. Power & Co., 1796 (also: 1809 & 1840 editions)


O'Neill, Francis, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1913.


Petrie, George, General Collection of Irish Music, London: Boosey and Co., 1903.


Thompson, Derek, An Introduction to Gaelic Poetry, London: Victor Gollancz, 1977.