This page is still under construction. I’m sorting through my personal library for what books I think will be the most helpful, engaging, accessible and informative.
Unfortunately I do not have the organisational capacity to run a lending library, however Storytellers and aspiring Storytellers are welcome to visit my home and read the books here.
books collecting Irish myths and folk tales:
Seanchas Annie Bhan: The Lore of Annie Bhán - Gordon W. MacLennan - ISBN:1-898473-84-6
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of OLD STORIES, WAYS and WISDOM from the SCHOOLS’ COLLECTION - John Creedon - ISBN:978-0-7171-9422-3
The Enchanted Bay: Tales and Legends from Ernie O’Malley’s Irish Folklore Collection - Cormac K.H. O’Malley and Patrick J. Mahoney - ISBN:978178537286
Why the Moon Travels - Oein DeBhairduin - ISBN:978-1-9164935-0-6
Twiggy Woman - Oein DeBhairduin - ISBN:978-1-915017-07-9
Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland - Eddie Lenihan - ISBN:978-0-7171-3659-9
Irish Sagas - Myles Dillon - ISBN:1-85635-174-2
Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends - Marie Heaney - ISBN:0-571-14251-1
Irish King and Hero Tales - Richard Marsh - ISBN: 978-0-955758-2-5
Epic Irish mythology:
The Táin: From the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cuailnge - Thomas Kinsella - ISBN:978-0-19-280373-3
Tales of the Elders of Ireland: A new translation of Acallam na Senórach - Ann Dooley and Harry Roe - ISBN:978-0-19-954985-6
Personal Accounts of folklore collectors:
That’s How it Was - Kevin Danaher
Going to the Well for Water: The Séamus Ennis Field Diary 1942-1946 - Ríonach uí Ógáin - ISBN:978-185918-437-0
Academic Books on Irish folklore and mythology:
A Handbook of Irish Folklore - Seán Ó Súilleabháin
The Lore of Ireland -Dáithí Ó hÓgáin - ISBN:1-905172-16-8
The Banshee: The Irish Death Messenger -Patricia Lysaght - ISBN:1-57098-138-8
The Medieval Changeling: Health, Childcare and the Family Unit -Rose A. Sawyer -
ISBN:978-1-84384-651-2
The Hero in Irish Folk History - Dáithí Ó hÓgáin - ISBN:7171-1359-0
The Festival of Brigit: Celtic Goddess and Holy Woman - Séamas Ó Catháin -
ISBN:978-1-908420-32-9
Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality - Michelle O Riordan - ISBN:978-1-85918-4141-1
Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity - Diarmuid Ó Giolláin -
ISBN: 1859161694
The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970: History, ideology, methodology - Mícheál Briody - ISBN: 978-951-746-967-0
All Silver & no Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming - Henry Glassie- ISBN: 0 85105 302 5
Seoda as Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann (Treasures of the National Folklore Collection) - The National Folklore Collection - ISBN:978-0-9565628-0-7
Early Irish Poetry - James Carney
Folk Music and Dances of Ireland - Breandán Breathnach - ISBN:1-900428-65-2
books collecting Irish music, song, or poetry:
Gáir Nan Clársach (The Harps’ Cry): An Anthology of 17th century Gaelic Poetry - Colm Ó Baoill and Meg Bateman - ISBN:1-874744-13-0
Walton’s New Treasury of Irish Songs and Ballads
Irish Bardic Poetry: Texts and Translations - Osborn Bergin - ISBN:0-9012821-12-x
The Otherworld: Music & Song from Irish Tradition: - Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock
The Ancient Music of Ireland: The Bunting Collections - Edward Bunting - ISBN:1 85720 139 6
books on relevant history and political theory
A Guide to Early Irish Law -Fergus Kelly - ISBN:1 85500 180 2
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - Barbara Ehrenreich - ISBN:978-1-84708-008-0
How the Irish Became White - Noel Ignatiev - ISBN:978-0-415-96309-1
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition- Emma Dabiri - ISBN:978-0-141-99673-8
Labour Nationality and Religion - James Connolly
Labour in Irish History - James Connolly
The Re-Conquest of Ireland - James Connolly
Anois ar Theact an tSamhraidh: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution - Robbie McVeigh & Bill Rolston - ISBN:978-1-914318-00-9
irish folk medicine:
Cures of Ireland: A Treasury of Irish Folk Remedies - Cecily Gilligan - ISBN:9781785374753