Reading Materials

This is a list of the texts and books I hope to read in the next twelve months:

The Ancient Celts by Barry Cuncliffe (currently reading);

Audacht Morainn; 

The Barddas; 

Britain AD by Francis Pryor;

Britain BC  by Francis Pryor (currently reading);

The British Heroic Age by N K Chadwick;

Carmina Gadelica;

Cath Maige Tuired (The Second Battle of Mag Tuired) ed. & trans. E Gray;

The Celtic Consciousness by R O’Driscoll;

The Celts by TGE Powell;

Déirdre (Longes mac nUislenn);

The Druids by N K Chadwick;

Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz;

Togail Bruidne Da Derga (The Destruction of Derga’s Hostel) trans. Whitely Stokes;

Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffrey Gantz;

The Four Ancient Books of Wales;

Imbas Forosnai by N K Chadwick;

The Keys of Knowledge – Ogham, Coelbren and Pagan Celtic Religion by Kevin Jones (read once, needs to be read again once I have read the myths) ;

The Metrical Dindshenchas;

Pagan Celtic Britain by Dr Anne Ross (currently reading);

Poetry and Prophecy by N K Chadwick;

Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney; and

Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley) trans. Thomas Kinsella;

Tochmarc Emire la Coinculaind (The Wooing of Emer); and

Tochmarc Étaine (The Wooing of Étaín) ed & trans. Bergin and Best; and

Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich.

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If anyone is interested, I do have a catalogue of my books online to view at Library Thing.
____________________________________________________________These are the books I have read so far:

A Brief Introduction to the Celts by Barry Cunliffe;

The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies (finished); and

The Tain translated by Ciaran Carson (finished).

 

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