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Celtic Studies Publications
Founded by the Harvard Celticist, John Koch, CSP still retains strong American links, producing the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, and books by US authors. Dr Koch himself is now based in Wales, but he still organizes the supply of books on Celtic Studies from other publishers to the USA through his website http://www.celticstudies.com
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Landscape Perception in Early Celtic Literature
by Francesco Benozzo
This pioneering work shows how Celtic cultures understood the place of human beings in their natural environment in ways fundamentally different from our own, exploring the unique unfolding of landscapes in early Irish and Welsh texts, including Tain Bo Cuailgne, The Voyage of Bran, the Gododdin and the mythological Taliesin poem on the Battle of the Trees. 260p (Celtic Studies Publications 2003)
Paperback. Price US$34.50
Ireland and the Grail
by John Carey
This is the first book-length study of the origins of the Grail legend to have been undertaken by a specialist in medieval Irish literature. Drawing on a detailed reexamination of the relevant texts in Irish, Welsh, Latin and French, extensive sections of which are presented in new translations, the author argues that the roots of the Grail legend are to be sought in the lost Old Irish manuscript known as the Book of Druimm Snechtai. ...
Paperback. Price US$29.95
A Single Ray of the Sun
by John Carey
This small volume aims to present the main themes of the early Irish church in an accessible manner to the scholar and the uninitiated alike. Carey avoids technical terms and effectively illustrates how the peculiarities and mysteries of Irish ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$16.50
Archæologia Britannica: Texts and Translations
by Edward Lhuyd, edited by Dewi W Evans and Brynley F Roberts
Edward Lhuyd's Archæologia Britannica effectively marks the discovery of the Celtic languages and the founding of Celtic Studies. First published in 1707, this was a groundbreaking work in comparative philology, the result of first-hand study of the Celtic languages and an epic four-year journey through the countries where they were spoken. To celebrate the volume's 300th anniversary, Lhuyd's sectional prefaces are republished ...
Hardback. Price US$39.95
Cin Chille Cuile - Texts, Saints and Places: Essays in Honour of Padraig O Riain
edited by John Carey, Marie Herbert and Kevin Murray
An attractive volume containing 28 substantial studies by John Carey, Máire Herbert, Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Seán O Coileáin,Donnchadh O Corráin, and other leading Celtic scholars, focusing on the subjects of Celtic Saints, Irish placenames, Irish literature and language of all periods. Includes a bibliography of the publications of Professor Pádraig O Riain, the leader of the ...
Hardback. Price US$54.95
Dr Kirwan's Irish Catechism
by Thomas Hughes
This collection of prayers, first published by Thomas Hughes around 1830, was one of the most popular religious texts in the Catholic West of Ireland in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The Gaelic text is presented with facing English translation and ...
Price US$25.00
A Celtic Florilegium: Studies in Memory of Brendan O Hehir
edited by Kathryn A. Klar, Eve E. Sweetser and Claire Thomas
Nineteen papers on early medieval Irish and Welsh texts. Contents include: St Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita Tertia S. Patricii (David Dumville); Re-reading Dafydd ap Gwilym (Patrick Ford); The spoils of ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$19.98
The Celtic Heroic Age
edited by John T. Koch
This book brings together an invaluable collection of literary sources, all in translation, for celtic Europe and early Ireland and Wales. The selections are divided into three sections: the first is classical authors on the ancient celts-a huge selection including both the well-known-Herodotos, Plato, Aristotle, Livy, Diogenes Laertius, and Cicero-and the obscure-Pseudo-Scymnus, Lampridius, Vopsicus, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemy I. The ...
Paperback. Price US$35.00
Ildánach Ildírech. A Festschrift for Proinsias Mac Cana
edited by John Carey, John T Koch and Pierre-Yves Lambert
An exploration of the links between the languages, cultures and traditions of the Celtic peoples of Ireland and Britain through an analysis of literary sources, place or people names and the Gaelic language. Twenty-six English, Gaelic or French essays, include extracts from Celtic texts, accompanied by detailed commentaries, and comparisons between these three main areas of influence. 312p (Celtic Studies 1999)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$45.00, Our Price US$19.98
Tartessian 2: The Inscription of Mesas do Castelinho ro and the Verbal Complex. Preliminaries to Historical Phonology
by John T. Koch
The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions. These texts survive from the Early Iron Age in the south-western Iberian Peninsula, the earliest writing from Atlantic Europe. By recombining word roots, prefixes and endings previously attested, the new inscription permits a major breakthrough with the language, ...
Paperback. Price US$29.95
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