Cunliffe, Barry. The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press, 1997)
This is an excellent and thorough book about the Ancient Celts, and highly recommended.

Eluere, Christiane, The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe (Abrams, NY, 1993)

Markale, Jean, The Celts (Inner Traditions International, VT, 1993)
Not a bad book, but towards the end he starts slipping into his own fantasies about the Celts that are not supported by the evidence.

Markale, Jean, Women of the Celts (Gordon & Cremonesi, 1975)
An excellent book about the status of women in ancient Celtic society.

Powell, T. G. E. The Celts. (Thames and Hudson: New York, 1980. second ed; reprint. 1991.)

Ross, Anne, Ph.D. Everyday Life of the Pagan Celts. (London, Batsford; New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.)

Ross, Ann and Don Robins, Life and Death of a Druid Prince (Touchtone, NY, 1989)

Chadwick, Nora K. Celtic Britain. (North Hollywood, CA : Newcastle, 1989,c1963. Series: Ancient peoples and places (New York, N.Y.) ; 34)

Mann, Nicholas R. The Isle of Avalon: Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury Tor (Llewellyn, St. Paul, 1996)

Ross, Anne. Pagan Celtic Britain. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967)

Moorhouse, Geoffrey. Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World (Harcourt Brace, San Diego, 1997)

Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization. (Anchor Books, 1996)
A wonderful celebration of the Irish and their contributions to Western Civilization, although pro-Christian and some Pagans may be offended. Still, highly recommended.

Raftery, Barry. Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age. (London, Thames and Hudson, 1994.)*
A great archeological book about ancient Ireland. Highly recommended.

Laing, Lloyd, and Jenny, The Picts and the Scots (Sutton Publishing Limited, 1996)*

Green, Miranda, The World of the Druids (Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1997)*
A good overview of Druids through history. Good beginner book.

Ellis, Peter Berresford, The Druids (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1994)
A very good discussion of Druids, though sometimes a bit romantic. Needs to be tempered with Piggot's book of the same name. Highly recommended, interesting reading.

Matthews, John, ed. The Druid Source Book (Blandford, London, 1997)

Piggot, Stuart, The Druids (Thames & Hudson, NY 1986)
A very good archeological study of Druids, though sometimes a bit cranky. Needs to be tempered with Ellis' book of the same name.

Rutherford, Ward, Celtic Lore: The History of the Druids and their Timeless Traditions (Aquarian/Thorsons, London, 1993)

Hawkins, Gerald, Beyond Stonehenge (Harper and Row, NY, 1973)

Hawkins, Gerald, Stonehenge Decoded (Dell, NY, 1965)

Souden, David. Stonehenge Revealed (Collins & Brown, 1997)*

Pennick, Nigel, Celtic Sacred Landscapes (Thames and Hudson, NY, 1996)

North, John, Stonehenge: a New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos (The Free Press, New York, 1996)

Rees, Alwyn and Brinley, Celtic Heritage : Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales (Thames & Hudson, NY 1989)

Green, Miranda, The Gods of the Celts (Barnes & Noble, Totowa NJ 1986)

Sjoestedt, M. L. Gods and Heroes of the Celts (1949; translated by Myles Dillon. repr. 1990 Turtle Press: Berkeley, CA.)

Matthews, Caitlin, The Celtic Spirit (Harper, San Francisco, 1999)

Matthews, Caitlin, The Celtic Tradition (Element, Shaftesbury, 1989)

King, John, The Celtic Druid's Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts (Blandford, London, 1995)

Bain, George, Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction (Dover Publications, NY, 1973)

Calder, George, Auraicept Na N-Šces [The Scholar's Primer] (Four Courts Press Ltd., Dublin, Ireland, 1995)

Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone, A Celtic Miscellany (Penguin Classics, MIddlesex, England, 1971)

Kinsella, Thomas, translator. The Tain Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge (Oxford University Press, 1983)

Matthews, John, ed. The Bardic Source Book: Inspirational Legacy and Teachings of the Ancient Celts (Blandford, London, 1999)

Matthews, John, ed. From Isles of Dream: Visionary Stories & Poems of the Celtic Renaissance (Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, NY, 1993)

Megaw, Ruth. Early Celtic Art: In Britain and Ireland (Princes Risborough: Shire Archaeology, 1986. Series: Shire archaeology ; 38)

Pearce, Mallory, Celtic Borders: Copywrite-Free Celtic Art (Dover Publications, NY, 1993)

(Various collections of tales and dictionaries)

Puhvel, Jaan. Comparative Mythology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987.)

Cross, Tom P. and Clark Harris Slover, Ancient Irish Tales (Reprint, Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1996)

Caldecott, Moyra, Women in Celtic Myth (Destiny, Rochester, VT, 1992)

Curtain, Jeramiah, Myths and Folktales of Ireland (Dover, NY, 1975)

Ellis, Peter Berresford, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. (Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1992)

Ellis, Peter Berresford. Dictionary of Irish Mythology. (Oxford Univ. Press, NY, 1993)

Ford, Patrick K, The Mabonogi and Other Welsh Medieval Tales (University of California Press, Berkeley 1977)

Gantz, Jeffrey, trans. The Mabinogion (Penguin, London, 1976)

Gantz, Jeffrey, trans. Early Irish Myths and Sagas (Penguin, London, 1978)

Mac Cana, Proinsias. Celtic Mythology (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1991)

Matthews, Caitlin, Mabon and the Mysteries of Britain (Arkana, 1987)

Matthews, John, ed. The Celtic Reader: Selections from Celtic Legend, Scholarship and Story (Thorsons, London, 1991)

Matthews, John, The Song of Taliesin: Stories and Poems from the Book of Broceliande (Aquarian, London, 1991)

Matthews, John, and Ian Daniels. Classic Celtic Fairy Tales. (Blandford, London, 1997.)

Matthews, John, and Ian Daniels.Tales of the Celtic Otherworld. (Blandford, London, 1998.)

Rolleston, T.W., Celtic Myths and Legends ( Dover, NY, reprint 1990)

Rutherford, Ward, Celtic Mythology (Aquarian Press 1987)

Squire, Charles, Celtic Myth and Legend (Newcastle, CA, reprint 1975)

Breatnach, Liam, ed., Uriacecht na RÌar, The Poetic Grades in Early Irish Law(Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Mount Salus Press Ltd., 1987)

Kelly, Fergus, A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Mount Salus Press Ltd., 1991)

Kelly, Fergus, Audacht Morainn (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, University Press, 1976)

Ginnell, Laurence. The Brehon Laws; a Legal Handbook. (T. F. Unwin, London, 1894)

Jenkins, Dafydd, trans. The Law of Hywel Dda: Law Texts of Medieval Wales (Llandysul, Dyfed: Gomer Press, 1986)

Blamires, Steve. Celtic Tree Mysteries: Secrets of the Ogham (Llewellyn, 1997)

McManus, Damian, A Guide to Ogham (An Sagart, Kildare, Ireland, 1991)

Thorsson, Edred, The Book of Ogham (Llewellyn Publications, 1992)

Murray, Liz and Colin, The Celtic Tree Oracle (Eddison/Sadd Editions Ltd, 1988)

Bonewits, P.E.I., Real Magic (Samuel Weiser, ME, 1993)

Carmichael, Alexander, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations (Lindisfarne, NY, reprint 1992)

Corrigan, Ian, Druidheachd: Symbols and Rites of Druidry. (Ian Corrigan, 1993)

Kondratiev, Alexei, The Apple Branch: A Path to Celtic Ritual (The Collins Press, Cork, 1998)

Matthews, John, ed. The Celtic Seers' Source Book: Vision and Magic in the Druid Tradition (Blandford, London, 1999)

Sutton, Maya Magee and Nicholas Mann. Druid Magic: The Practice of Celtic Wisdom (Llewellyn, St. Paul, 2000)

Carr-Gomm, Philip, ed. The Druid Renaissance (Thorsons, London, 1996)

Carr-Gomm, Philip. The Druid Tradition (Element, Shaftesbury, 1991)

Carr-Gomm, Philip. The Druid Way (Element, Shaftesbury, 1993)

Nichols, Ross. The Book of Druidry: History, Sites and Wisdom (Aquarian/Thorsons, London, 1975)

Orr, Emma Restall. Thorsons Principles of Druidry (Thorsons Principles) (Thorsons, London, 1999)

Orr, Emma Restall. Spirits of the Sacred Grove: The World of a Druid Priestess (Thorsons, London, 1998)

Hopman, Ellen Evert, Tree Medicine, Tree Magic (Phoenix Publishing, Washington, 1991)

Hopman, Ellen Evert, A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Destiny Books, Rochester, VT,1995)

Cowan, Tom, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit (Harper, San Francisco, 1993)

Matthews, Caitlin, Singing the Soul Back Home (Element, Shaftsbury, 1995)

Matthews, Caitlin and John, Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: The Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook (Element, Shaftesbury, 1994)

Matthews, John, The Celtic Shaman: A Handbook. (Element, Shaftesbury, 1991)

Llywelyn, Morgan, Druids (Ivy Books, NY, 1991) (fiction)

Delaney, Mary Murray, Of Irish Ways (Harper & Row, New York, 1973)

O'Donohue, John. Anamcara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (HarperCollins, 1997)

O'Donohue, John. Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong (Harper Collins, 1999)

We recommend Books for Scholars as an excellent source for more in-depth reading materials. (They also have good Irish and Welsh language courses available, some with tapes.)

We DO NOT recommend the following authors. Their books are based on poor scholarship, and can even be said to be outright misinformation:

• Cunliffe, Barry. The Ancient Celts (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Green, Miranda, The World of the Druids (Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1997)*
• Ellis, Peter Berresford, The Druids (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1994)
• Rees, Alwyn and Brinley, Celtic Heritage : Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales (Thames & Hudson, NY 1989)
• Mac Cana, Proinsias. Celtic Mythology (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1991)