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The Mythology and Folklore of the Celts: Works Cited

By Drew Timmons

Works Cited

Briggs, Katharine Mary. British Folktales. Pantheon, 1977.

Campbell, J. F. Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected. Edmonston and Douglas, 1859.

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Carleton, William. Tales and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. D. & J. Sadlier and Co., 1864.

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Carmichael, A. Carmina. Gadelica, Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words, Rites, and Customs, Dying and Obsolete. T. and A. Constable, 1900. https://archive.org/details/carminagadelicah01carm_0/mode/2up

The Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland and Wales, ed. by John T. Koch in collaboration with John Carey. 4th ed., rev. and expanded. Celtic Studies Publications, 2003 (1st ed., 1994).

The Celtic World, ed. by Miranda Green. Routledge, 1996. (CH, Nov’95, 33-1693)

Croker, Thomas Crofton. Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. J. Murray, 1839 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008622411

____. Popular Songs of Ireland, collected and edited, with introductions and notes, by T. Crofton Croker. Henry Colburn, 1839. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005828571

Cromek, R. H. Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Son: With Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry. Cadell & Davie, 1810. https://catalog.ha-thitrust.org/Record/007686673

Cuchulain of Muirthemme: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. J. Murray, 1902. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007118011

Cunliffe, Barry W. The Ancient Celts. Oxford, 1997. (CH, Mar’98, 35-3942)

____ The Celts: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, 2003.

Curtin, Jeremiah. Hero Tales of Ireland. Macmillan, 1894. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005776642

____. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. Little, Brown, and Company, 1890. https://catalog.ha-thitrust.org/Record/006528263

____. Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World: Collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster. Little, Brown, 1895. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005776643

Delaney, Frank. The Celts. Little, Brown, 1986.

Dorson, Richard M. The British Folklorists: A History. Chicago, 1968.

____. Folklore: Selected Essays. Indiana, 1972.

Early Irish Myths and Sagas, tr. with an introduction and notes by Jeffrey Gantz. Penguin, 1981.

Ellis, Peter Berresford. The Chronicles of the Celts: New Tellings of Their Myths and Legends. Carroll & Graf, 1999.

Evans-Wentz, W. Y. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. H. Froude, 1911 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007938149

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, ed. and selected by W. B. Yeats. Walter Scott Press, 1890. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011986316

Folk-Tales of the British Isles, chosen and with an introduction by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Pantheon, 1988.

Freeman, Philip. Celtic Mythology: Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes. Oxford, 2017. (CH, Nov’17, 55-1001)

Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory. John Murray, 1904. https://catalog.ha-thitrust.org/Record/001058722

Hyde, Douglas. Beside the Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories, ed., tr., and annotated by Douglas Hyde. With additional notes by Alfred Nutt. D. Nutt, 1890. https://catalog.ha-thitrust.org/Record/100895712

____. Legends of Saints and Sinners, collected and translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde. Talbot, 1915. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011821737

Irish Fairy Tales / edited with an introduction by W. B. Yeats. Cassell, 1892. https://cata-log.hathitrust.org/Record/003199862

Irish Folktales, ed. by Henry Glassie. Pantheon, 1985.

Jones, T. G. Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom. D. S. Brewer and Rowan & Littlefield, 1979.

Joseph, Jacob. Celtic Fairy Tales. Nutt, 1892: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7885

____. More Celtic Fairy Tales. D. Nutt, 1894. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005776599

Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. Bohm, 1850. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008622099

Mac Cana, Proinslas. Celtic Mythology. New rev. ed. P. Bedrick, 1985. (1st ed., Hamlyn, 1970)

Ó Súilleabháin, Seán. A Handbook of Irish Folklore. The Educational Company of Ireland LTD, 1942.

____ Legends from Ireland. Rowman and Littlefield, 1978.

Rhys. John. Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx. Clarendon, 1901.https://catalog.ha-thitrust.org/Record/001276536

Scott, Walter. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded upon Local Tradition. 3v. 1802-04. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/web-bin/book/lookupid?key=olbp71651

Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, collected and arranged by Lady Gregory. Oxford, 1970 (1st ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1920). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001276522

Wilde, Lady. Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland; Contributions to Irish Core. Ward and Downey, 1890. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100771060

____. Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland: With Sketches of the Irish Past. Ticknor and Co. (1888). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100327164

Wilde, W. R. Irish Popular Superstitions. [Place unknown], 1852. 

Williams, M. A. [Mark]. Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth. Princeton, 2016.