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An (updated) List of Celtic Resources

The majority of the sources listed here are good resources for anyone interested in the ancient Celts, Celtic “identity,” Classical sources on the Celts, Celtic “religions,” medieval Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany, as well as some resources for learning Celtic languages. This is a growing list, the permanent link for which can be found HERE. 

GENERAL:

CELT Resources from University College Cork

Research Guide to Celtic Studies

“Celtic!” Anders Ahlqvist, University of Sydney

(If you have access to it) “Celtomania and Celtosceptism,” Patrick Sims-Williams, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 36 (Winter, 1998).

An alternative history of “Celticness”  (Simon James’ Ancient Celts) 

How being Celtic got a bad name - and why you should care 

THE TRUTH ABOUT CELTIC RUNES

DRUIDS AND RELIGION:

Ronald Hutton, Blood and Mistletoe, The Pagan Religions of the British Isles Pagan Britain

This is a strange website, but good for Classical sources on “Druids.”

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Celtic Gods and Heroes

Miranda Green, Animals in Celtic Life and Myth The Gods of the Celts The Celtic World The World of the Druids

ANCIENT CELTS:

Iron Age “Celts” from the University of Texas at Austin - who also are kind enough to provide a very important note on their sources page - “Studies of the ancient “Celts” cannot but refer to the classical sources, since there is no early Celtic literature preserved at all; their temporal, geographic and cultural distance from their subject, as well as the exigencies of their respective genres, suggest we exercise due caution in applying their observations to the earlier period.”

Barry Cunliffe (Note: Cunliffe is an archaeologist by training and not a historian), The Ancient Celts, The Celts: A Very Short Introduction

John Koch and John Carey, The Celtic Heroic Age (everything from sources on the ancient Celts to medieval Irish/Welsh/Brittonic)

LITERATURE, FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY:

Celtic Folklore on Sacred-Texts.com PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THE MAJORITY OF TEXTS POSTED ON SACRED-TEXTS ARE THOSE WHICH ARE OUT OF PRINT AND THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE FROM THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES. It’s best in most cases to look for newer publications and translations. Kuno Meyer is generally ok, though.

Irish Texts Society

Celtic Literature Collective (again, majority of these translations are outdated and some are doubly posted on other websites in this list)

Irish Myth Translations

A much newer and decent translation of The Mabinogion.

A much newer and decent translation of An Táin.

A decent translation of Y Gododdin.

Jeffery Gantz, Early Irish Myths and Sagas

Peter Berresford Ellis, Celtic Myths and Legends

Alwyn Rees and Brinkley Rees, Celtic Heritage

Kenneth Jackson, A Celtic Miscellany

HISTORY:

The Medieval Celtic Fringe

A New History of Ireland, Volume I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland

A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534

Irish Medieval History (Facebook, but with some good basic information and resources)

Medieval Scotland

Who were the Picts?

The Kingdom of the Picts

Picts on Education Scotland (also with information on Iron Age Celts, Romans, etc)

About the Picts

The Middle Ages - National Library of Wales

Ancient Wales

Early Medieval Wales

Medieval Wales

Brittany and Its History

Cornish History from the Cornwall Heritage Trust

Basic history and historical sites on the Isle of Man Guide

A History of the Isle of Man (from 1900, so fairly outdated)

ANCIENT LANGUAGES:

Ogham in 3D

Ogam (Ogham) Markings

Pronunciations of Celtic Texts - CSANA (mostly Welsh)

ASNC Spoken Word (Insular Latin, Old English, Old Norse, Medieval Irish, Continental Celtic)

Old Irish Online - University of Texas at Austin

Rudolf Thurneysen -A Grammar of Old Irish (the Bible, basically), also available from the DIAS- unless you have background with another case language, Old Irish is incredibly difficult to learn on your own.

David Stifter - Sengoidelc

Old and Middle Welsh - University of Cambridge

Reading Middle Welsh

What Do I Need to Learn Medieval Welsh?

dil.ie (Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language)

MODERN LANGUAGES:

Where can I learn a Celtic Language?

What are the Celtic Languages?

  IRISH (GAEILGE)

Irish Gaelic Learners’ Material on the Internet

Focloir.ie (New Irish-English Dictionary)

Irish on Duolingo

Buntús Cainte (for iPad)

Colloquial Irish

Learning Irish

  SCOTTISH GAELIC (GÀIDHLIG)

Gàidhlig air an Lìon (Internet resources for information on Gàidhlig, learning Gàidhlig, and beyond)

Am Faclair Beag (Gaelic-English dictionary)

  MANX (GAELG)

Learn Manx (Ynsee Gaelg)

   WELSH (CYMRAEG)

Siarad Cymraeg

Learn Welsh

Beginners’ Welsh at the Open University

Geiriadur.net (Trinity Saint David online Welsh-English Dictionary)

   BRETON (BREZHONEG)

How to Learn the Breton Language…

Geriadur.com (French-Breton dictionary)

English-Breton dictionary

   CORNISH (KERNOWEK)

Learn Cornish Now

Learning and Teaching (Cornish)

Cornish Language Partnership Cornish-English dictionary

i wanna feel how dogs feel when you let them go in a big field 

Gonna have to make a purple Cookie Monster