Full Title: Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe’s Ancient Mystery
Author: Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Synopsis: Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream…
Category Archives: Celtic Scholar’s Reviews and Opinions
Brigid
Name of Series: Pagan Portals
Full Title: Brigid – Meeting the Celtic Goddess of Poetry, Forge, and Healing Well
Author: Morgan Daimler
Synopsis: Pagan Portals – Brigid is a basic introduction to the Goddess Brigid focusing on her history and myth as well as her modern devotion and worship. Primarily looking at the Irish Goddess but including a …
An Leabhar Urnai A Book Of Celtic Reconstructionist Friendly Prayers
By Air n-Aithesc (Our Message) in Air n-Aithesc Press Books
92 pages, published 3/1/2016
An Leabhar Urnaí: A Book of Celtic Reconstructionist Friendly Prayer, was inspired by Ceisiwr Serith’s book A book of Pagan Prayer. This book offers prayers and invocations in Old Irish, Gaulish, with their English translations; as well as prayers in English to Welsh, Irish and Gaulish Gods. The authors and editor also took the time to add a little information on the Gods they pray too and the reasons behind writing their prayers or…
Understanding Celtic Religion
Full Title: Understanding Celtic Religion – Revisiting The Pagan Past
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
Synopsis: (From back of the book) Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume…
The Kingship and Landscape of Tara
**This review was first published in Air n-Aithesc Volume II, Issue II.
Editor: Edel Bhreathnach
Publisher: Four Court Press for The Discovery Programme
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9781851829545
Synopsis: (From the Four Courts Press Website)
This volume is the culmination of an inter-disciplinary project undertaken as part of the Discovery Programme involving archaeologists, historians, linguists and place-name experts. It includes …
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes
Author: Jonathan Bardon
Pages: 592 including works cited and Bibliography.
Synopsis: Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, …
Ancient Ireland Life Before the Celts
Author: Laurance Flanagan
Pages: 288 including sketches, figures and glossary.
Synopsis: When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 250BC, the island had already been inhabited for over 7,000 years. These pre-Celtic peoples …
Tara A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland
Author: R. A. S. Macalister
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Published: 1931
Pages: 208 including notes, index and bibliography.
Review: Continue reading…
Ancient Journeys
Full Title: Ancient Journeys – The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
Synopsis:
Who are the Europeans and where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have released a mass of data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. New advances allow us to track human movement and the spread of crops, animals, and disease, and we can see the evidence of population crashes and rises, both continent-wide and locally. Visions of continuity have been replaced with a more dynamic view of Europe’s past, with one wave of migration followed by another, from the first human arrivals in Europe to the Vikings.
Review:
Celts The History and Legacy of One of the Oldest Cultures in Europe
Author: Martin J. Dougherty
Publisher: Amber Books
Published: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78274-166-4 (Hardcover)
Pages: 224 including bibliography, index, maps, and pictures (black and white and coloured)
Synopsis:
“They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses… They embalm the heads… [and]… display them with pride to strangers.” – Diodorus Siculus.