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This is by no means a master post. Rather, it is sources I have collected and searched for regarding Celtic studies. This is however, a list in progress and I will update it as more sources are found. Below are sources from Harvard, Berkeley, University of Cork, other universities, tumblr users, etc. A lot tend to gear towards Irish history, culture, myths, etc., because I am an Irish Polytheist but I have included books and sources for Welsh, Scottish, etc.

If anyone else has something they would like to add, let me know! I want to add more shrines and other resources to Brythonic / Welsh, Gaul sections. My goal is for this post to become a valuable resource.

Tip: When researching and you don’t want to have to sift through countless Wikipedia pages, type site:.edu into the search bar.

Example: celtic society site:.edu

Note: Not all sources have links…I got tired.

Books:

Irish
Polytheism

1.
R.F. Foster. Oxford
History of Ireland.

2.      Jeffrey Gantz. Early Irish
Myths and Sagas.

3.      Thomas Kinsella. The Tain.

4.      Maurice Riordan. The Finest
Music: An Anthology of Early Irish Lyrics.

5.      Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton. In Search of
Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of
the English.

6.      Diarmuid Ó Giolláin. Locating
Irish Folklore. Tradition, Modernity, Identity.

7.      Declan Kiberd and P. J. Mathews. Handbook of
the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Irish Cultural and Political Writings
1891-1922.

8.      Anne Dooley, Anne and Harry Roe. Tales of the
Elders of Ireland.

9.      Dáithí Ó hÓgáin. The Lore of
Ireland.

10. Nerys Thomas Patterson. Cattle Lords
and Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland.

11. Tom Peete Cross and Clark Harris Slover. eds. Ancient Irish
Tales.

12. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh. "Coire Sois, The Cauldron of
Knowledge’" A companion to Early Irish Saga (2013)

13. Ibid. “Myth and Saga: ‘The Wooing of Étaín,’” in
Why Irish: Irish Language and Literature in Academia (2008)

14. Ibid. “Early Irish Literature and Law,” lecture
presented to the Finnish Society of Arts and Letters (2007)

15. Ibid. “The Expulsion of the Déisi,” Journal of the
Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (2005)

16. Ibid. “Sírrabad Súaltaim and the Order of Speaking
among the Ulaid”, in A Companion in Linguistics: A Festschrift for Anders
Ahlqvist (2005)

17. Ibid. “Sound and Sense in Cath Almaine,” Ériu 54
(2004)

18. Ibid. “The Oldest Story of the Laigin: Observations on
Orgain Denna Ríg,” Éigse 33 (2002)

19. Ibid. Gat and Díberg in Togail Bruidne Dá Derga in Celtica
Helsingiensa (1996)

20. Ibid. The Heroic Biography of Cormac Mac Airt (1977)

Celts
(General)

21. T. G. E. Powell. The
Celts.

22. Caesar, Julius, Seven
Commentaries on The Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus
Hirtius, Translated with Introduction and Notes by Carolyn
Hammond.

23. Geoffrey of Monmouth. History of
the Kings of Britain.

24. John Collis. The Celts:
Origins, Myths, Inventions.

25. Barry Cunliffe. The Ancient
Celts.

26. Ibid. Europe
between the Oceans 9000 BC- AD 1000. (2011 ed.)

27. Timothy Darvill. Prehistoric
Britain.

28. Miranda Green. The Celtic
World.

29. Simon James. The Atlantic
Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention.

30. Simon James. The World of
the Celts

31. John King. Kingdoms of
the Celts.

32. Sabatino Moscati. The Celts.

33. Nigel Pennick. Celtic Sacred
Landscapes.

34. Barry Raftery. Pagan Celtic
Ireland.

35. Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees. Celtic
Heritage.

36. Marcus Tanner. The Last of
the Celts.

37. John Waddell. Archaeology
and Celtic Myth.

38. Peter S. Wells. The Emergence
of an Iron Age Economy: The Mecklenburg Grave Groups from Hallstatt and Stična.

39. John T. Koch (ed.) with J. Carey. The
Celtic Heroic Age: Literary Sources for Ancient Celtic Europe and Early Ireland
and Wales.

40. Mike Parker Pearson. The
Archaeology of Death and Burial.

41. W. Y. Evans-Wentz. The Fairy
Faith in Celtic Countries.

42. James MacKillop. Celtic Myth
and Legends.

43. Ibid. Dictionary of
Celtic Mythology.

44. Marie-Louise Sjoestedt (trans Myles Dillon). Celtic Gods
and Heroes.

45. Miranda Green. Dictionary of
Celtic Myth and Legend.

46. Natasha Sumner. “A Night of Storytelling and Years in
the ‘Z-Closet’: The Re-discovery and Restoration ofOidhche Sheanchais, Robert
Flaherty’s ‘Lost’ Irish Folklore Film,” Folklore 126.1 (2015), 1-19. (With
Barbara Hillers and Catherine McKenna)

47. Ibid. “How Popean was Rob Donn?: A Study in
Intertextuality,” Aiste: Rannsachadh air Litreachas Gàidhlig / Studies in Gaelic
Literature 4 (2014), 96-113.

48. Ibid. “Laoidh an Tàilleir ‘The Ballad of the Tailor’:
Sartorial Satire and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” in Celts
and their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A Festschrift for Malcolm Broun, ed.
Anders Ahlqvist and Pamela O’Neill (2013), 327–47.

49. Ibid. “The Ceudach Tale in Scotland and Cape Breton,” in
Celts in the Americas, ed. Michael Newton (2013), 218–47.

50. Ibid. “Women’s Conduct and the Poetry of Sìleas na Ceapaich,”
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 32 (2013), 304–24.
ibid.

51. Ibid. “James Thomson’s The Seasons, Gone Gaelic: The
Emergence of a Poetic Trend,”Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 30
(2011), 236–58.

Brythonic
Polytheism

52. John Davies.  A
History of Wales. (2007 ed.)

53. Sioned Davies. The
Mabinogion.

54. Dun Brython, Iron Age Brythonic religion

55. Catherine McKenna. "Reading with Rhydderch:
Mabinogion Texts in Manuscript Context,“ in Language and Power in the
Celtic World: Papers from the Seventh Australian Conference of Celtic Studies,
ed. Anders Ahlqvist and Pamela O’Neill (2011)

56. Ibid. “The Prince, the Poet and the Scribe: Reflections
on the Elegiac Tradition in Medieval Wales”, in Celtic Studies Association
of North America Yearbook 10, ed. Morgan T. Davies (2011)

57. Ibid. “Angels and Demons in the Pages of Lebor na
hUidre,” in Narrative in Celtic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Edgar M.
Slotkin. Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 8/9, ed. Joseph
Eska (2011)

58. Ibid. “‘What Dreams May Come Must Give Us Pause’: Breudwyt
Ronabwy and the Red Book of Hergest,” Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 58
(Winter 2009), 69-99

59. Ibid. “The Colonization of Myth in Branwen Ferch Lyr,” in
Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook 6 (2007)

60. Ibid. “Performing Penance and Poetic Performance in the
Medieval Welsh Court,” Speculum(2007)

61. Ibid. “Revising Math: Kingship in the Fourth Branch of the
Mabinogi,” Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 46 (2003), 95-117.

62. Ibid. “Between Two Worlds: Saint Brigit and Pre-Christian
Religion in the Vita Prima,” in Defining the Celtic, ed. Joseph F. Nagy (2002)

63. Ibid. “Apotheosis and Evanescence: The Fortunes of Saint
Brigit in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in The Individual in Celtic
Literatures, ed. Joseph F. Nagy (2001)

64. Ibid. “Learning Lordship: The Education of Manawydan,” in
Ildánach, Ildírech: A Festschrift for Proinsias MacCana, ed. John Carey, John
T. Koch and Pierre-Yves Lambert (1999)

65. Ibid. “Bygwth a Dychan mewn Barddoniaeth Llys
Gymraeg,” in Beirdd a Thywysogion, ed. Morfydd E. Owen and Brynley F.
Roberts (1996)

66. Ibid. The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric: Poems of the
Gogynfeirdd 1137-1282 (1991).

67. Ibid. Editor of the poetry of Llywelyn Fardd I, Llywelyn
Fardd II and selected poems of Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch and Bleddyn Fardd for
Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, ed. R. Geraint Gruffydd (1994-6)

68. Welsh
Rhiannon and Celtic Women Bibliography compiled by Professor
Leslie A. Donovan.

Gaelic
Polytheism

69. Alexander Carmichael. Carmina
Gadelica: Volume 1.

70. Ibid. Carmina
Gadelica: Volume 2.

71. Ibid. Carmina
Gadelica: Volume 3.

72. Scottish folklore at Proud
Scotland.

73. Scottish myths and folklore at Scotland.org.

74. Scottish folklore and legend at Rampant
Scotland.

75. The Lore of
Scotland by Jennifer Westwood and Sophia Kingshill.

76. Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain by Jennifer Westwood

77. Scottish Myths
and Legends by KE Sullivan

Gaulish
Polytheism

78. Acy-Romance – Detailed interactive site on the territory
of the Gaulish Remi, their sacred sites, history.

79. À la recherche des fêtes celto-romaines.

80. Cernunnos: Origin and Transformation of a Celtic Divinity by
Phyllis Fray Bober.

Extremely helpful resources other people have put together:

Irish & Gaelic Polytheism Resources from Bean-chaointe.

Guide to Gaelic Polytheism.

Ancestors Master Post : The Mighty Dead & Beloved Dead.

Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Celtic Culture (paper written by

Kristin Hawkins).

The Southern Modern Polytheist tag.

Legends Retold  (some legends are retold about the Tuatha de Danann and heroes).

Story Archaeology: A Podcast on Irish Mythology.

Mary Jones Celtic Encyclopedia.

Mary Jones Celtic Literature.

Bibliography of Celtic Sources from the University of Texas at Austin.

Celtic Polytheists Tumblr Roll Call  from echtrai.

CELT.

Celtic Resources list

Bard Mythologies (Irish).

e-Keltoi.

The Shieldmaiden blog.

Tairis. Gaelic polytheism.

Gaulish Polytheism Facebook Community.

List of Celtic worshippers, devotees, and followers from my spirit walks with you.

Maruadiat es Gaul – Gaulish history and archaeology.

Condēuios.

David Ficker-Wilbar – Cernunnos: Looking Another Way – a useful resource on Cernunnos.

Deo Mercurio – a very excellent Gallo-Roman resource focusing on the religion of the Treverii.

Gaulish Polytheistic Resources from she walked into the woods and was not seen again blog.

Fieldstones (blog that has a ton of different prayers for Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Germanic, Greek, Gaulish, Brythonic deities).

I’m too hot (a Gaulish Polytheist blog ran by a Belenos devotee and has tons of helpful information).

Deities:

The Morrígan: Her/Their History & Contemporary Cult from Bean-chaointe.

Macha (an ask answered by fiadhta).

Updated Brigit Resource from flowering hawthorn.

Manannán (ask answered by edderkopper).

Flidais (ask answered by fiadhta).

Belenos (paper written by Cunobelinus Betullicnos (“houndofbel”))

Shrines:

Brighid of the Mantles

Shrine to Brigit

Flidais Foltchaín

Honoring Flidais

For Áine, The Radiant Summer Sun

Little Manannan

Mists Between Worlds (Manannán)

Son of Lir

Danand

Lugh

A Murder for the Morrigan

Offerings to the Morrigan

Oghma

Epona.net