[net.books] Books on Celtic culture

jmg@houxk.UUCP (12/08/83)

	I'd like to suggest some excellent books on Celtic culture for net
subscribers. I've read most of them from beginning to end and the rest I've
sampled.

Title				Author				Publisher
-----				------				---------

The Celts			Nora Chadwick			Pelican

Celtic Heritage - Ancient	Alwyn Rees & Brinley Rees	Thames & Hudson
Tradition in Ireland and Wales

A Celtic Miscellany		Prof. Kenneth Jackson		Penguin

Early Irish Myths and Sagas	Jeffery Gantz			Penguin Classic

The Tain (Tain Bo Cuailnge)	Thomas Kinsella			Oxford Univ.
								Press & Dolmen
								Press

Early Christain Ireland		Maire & Liam De Paor		Thames & Hudson

The Book of Conquests		Jim Fitzpatrick			Dutton

America B.C.			Barry Fell			Wallaby

Saga America			Barry Fell			Times Books

The Search for Lost America	Salvatore Michael Trento	Penguin

	If you can't get these books through your local book store or you'd
like to get some other titles you can get them from:

Facsimile Books, 5th Avenue & 55th Street, New York, N.Y.  (212) 581-2672
			- or -
Keshcarrigan Book Store, 90 West Broadway, New York, N.Y.  (212) 962-4237

steve@sdccsu3.UUCP (12/09/83)

<one two three banana>

for those interested in the language itself there is a 
formidable reference work covering both orthography and 
origin as well as quite a few p's and q's.  it should
be accessible (snicker) to anyone `familiar with the
comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages'.

    "A Grammar of Old Irish",  Rudolf Thurneysen
    translated from the german by binchy and bergin
    Dublin, the Dublin Institue for Advance Studies
    1946, Alex Thom & Co. Ltd. Dublin

also recommended:

    "Celtic Bards, Chiefs and Kings" by George Borrow,
    1928, John Murray, Albemarle Street W, London


>From my humble DTE to yours:
Steve Serocki 	UUCP:  ...{[allegra]!sdcrdcf [dcdwest]!sdcsvax}sdccsu3!steve