Ancient Ireland - Life Before the Celts
Laurence Flanagan; Gill & MacMillan, Dublin.
(A source book of archaeological data, with
distribution maps of Ireland. To read this book,
you should know a lot more than we did!)
An Anthology of Irish Verse
Padraic Column; Liveright, N.Y.
The Archaeology of Ireland
Peter Harbison; The Bodley Head, London, Sydney, Toronto
Assorted articles from The Newry Reporter
Newry Reporter, Newry, Co. Down, N. Ireland
Assorted articles from The Irish Times
Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
Assorted articles from The Ottawa Citizen
Southam Press, Ottawa, Can.
Atlas of Plant Life
Herbert Edlin; John Day Co., N.Y., U.S.
(History of the potato.)
Ballyholland and the Great Famine 1845-1848
Colm McAteer; Clan Mhac an t'Saoir Publications, Ballyholland, Ireland
(Best account of the causes, and onset of the Great Famine.)
Best Quotations for all Occasions
Lewis C. Henry; Fawcett Premier, N.Y.
The Brendan Voyage
Tim Severin; Oxford, U.K.
(Fascinating and scholarly account of crossing the Atlantic in a leather boat;
and how the Irish discovered America around the time of Christ- a "must read"!)
The Celts
Frank Delaney; Hodder and Stoughton, London
Cine Mhac an t'Saoir, guide to sources for researching
Ulster Historical Foundation; Belfast.
(About 100 pages of source material for the researcher in McAteer
history in Ireland. Lists, tables, maps, and some text. Affordable
and highly useful.)
Clan Mac Intyre - Your clan heritage
Alan McNie; Cascade Publishing company, Scotland
The complete illustrated Poems, Songs & Ballads of Robert Burns
Lomond Books; Chancellor Press, London
The Dawn of Civilization
Stuart Piggott, Ed.; McGraw-Hill, N.Y.
The Discoverers - Man's Search to know his World and Himself
Daniel J. Boorstin; Random House, N.Y.
(Saint Brendan - what made him do it?)
Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom
Caitlin & John Matthews; Element Books, Dorset, U.K.
Exploring the World of the Celts
Simon James; Thames and Hudson, London
The Faber Book of Children's Verse
Faber, London, U.K.
The Faber Book of Irish Verse
John Montague; Faber, London, U.K.
The Farfarers - Before the Norse
Farley Mowat; Seal Books, Toronto
(Mowat holds that the Norse were not exploring the New World
when they settled in Newfoundland- they were there as pirates,
raiding existing colonies. His theory would surely resolve a
number of historic riddles.)
The Great Events - by Famous Historians
Published by The National Alumni, London & N.Y.
The Great Human Diasporas
Cavalli-Sforza and Son; Perseus Books; Cambridge, Mass.
(A study of the distribution of genetics and languages
across Europe, and how it validates much of known history.
Some helpful maps.)
Grosse Ile - Gateway to Canada 1832-1937
Marianna O'Gallagher; Livres Carraig, Ste. Foy, Quebec
Histories
Herodotus; Wordsworth Classics, Hertfordshire, U.K.
(Herodotus wrote about 500 years B.C. This is one of the
source books of today's history. 700 pages.)
The Hiram Key
Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas; Arrow Books Ltd., U.K.
(Mentions the sailing fleet of the Knights Templar, it's mysterious
disappearance, and a possible link with Clan MacIntyre in Scotland)
A History of Northern Ireland
Thomas Hennessy; St. Martin's Press, N.Y.
(A thorough and scholarly study of the history of Northern Ireland.
Not light reading, but an excellent source book.)
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell; Allen & Unwin, Ltd., U.K.
(Russell speaks of the Irish contribution to Western civilization,
and how the Irish preserved much of the world's learning.)
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill; Doubleday, N.Y., London, Toronto, Sidney, Auckland
(An interesting, if understated book. Despite its sensationalist
title, it gives the Irish no more credit than Toynbee and Russell did.
We hope the next edition will trace the Irish origins of universities
all across Europe - no one has taken the trouble to do so yet. Still, a worth
while read.)
The Iceman Inheritance
Michael Bradley; Dorset Publishing, Toronto
(A radical new look at Neanderthal Man and a thoroughly unflattering
look at the Caucasian race.)
Immortal Poems of the English Language
Oscar Williams; Washington Square Press, U.S.
The Intelligent Travelers Guide to Ireland
Philip A. Crowl; Contemporary Books, Chicago, U.S.
(Well written, with a brief history of Ireland.)
Ireland
Nick Constable & Karen Farrington; Promotional Reprint Company, London
(If you could only have one book on Ireland . . .
beautiful pics, history, architecture, music, literature, Irish recipes)
Ireland in Poetry
Charles Sullivan; Abrams, N.Y.
Irish - A complete course for beginners
Diarmuid Ó Sé & Joseph Sheils; NTC Publishing, U.S.
(Popular among teachers of Gaelic.)
Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement
Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth; University Toronto Press, T.O.
(When and where the Irish arrived in Canada; names of ships; counties
of origin; letters home; maps. A must for researchers.)
Irish Poetry, 1000 Years of
Kathleen Haogland; Konecky & Konecky, N.Y.
(768 pages, from 7th to 20th century, with chronological table of
contents with poets dates. Over-stocked, this book is a bargain.)
The Irish Tradition
Robin Flower; Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1947
(This little gem of a book has a story that deserves to be told.
Robin Flower was in declining health and knew he had not the strength to
write this last book which he had always wanted to write. His family and
friends rallied to the cause, and finished the work using his manuscript,
and searching out the references themselves. Their generosity is a gift to us all.)
Kings, Lords, & Commons
Frank O'Connor;
(Linguist, musician, architect, historian, and a writer of great sensitivity,
O'Connor translates poems from the Gaelic, with explanatory notes.)
The Limerick - Paris Edition
Castle Books, U.S.
The Magnificent Gael
Reginald B. Hale; MOM Printing, Ottawa.
(Out of print, but still available. Excellent and original scholarship
of the life and times of Saint Columcille (St. Columba to some). No
serious student should be without a copy.)
The McAteers - A Canadian pioneer family.
Otto E. Devitt; Richmond Hill, Ont
(This being the only work by Devitt which is NOT about birds!)
Medieval Irish Lyrics
James Carney; Berkeley Univ. Press, U.S.
The Merck Manual of diagnosis and therapy
Merck, Sharp & Dohme Laboratories; Rahway, N.J., U.S.
(ref: diseases, malnutrition, starvation)
Old French Papers
B. C. Payette; Pacific Northwest Indian Centre, Inc., Spokane, U.S.
(Early French records of Irish settlement in Canada. Writings of
Jacques Cartier, Cabot, Champlain and others, in the original
language.)
On the Crofters' Trail; In search of the Clearance Highlanders
David Craig; Jonathan Cape, London
(Craig collects family Clearance lore in Nova Scotia, and then travels to Scotland where
he proves and documents many of the tales. Important, because even now, Scottish history
is being rewritten, and soon the Highland Clearance will never have happened!)
The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
Colin McEvedy; Penguin, U.K.
(Maps showing the spread of civilizations.)
People of the Wetlands; Bogs, Bodies and Lake-Dwellers
Bryony & John Coles; Thames and Hudson, London.
(The archaeology of mesolithic Europe. Seamus Heaney writes
poetry about these same people.)
Le Petit Robert Dictionnaire
Robert S.A.; Paris, France
(ref: archaic French)
Poems from Ireland
William Cole; Thomac Crowell Co., N.Y.
The Scottish Clans & Their Tartans
Johnston & Bacon, Ltd, Edinburgh and London.
A Study of History
Arnold J. Toynbee; Oxford University Press, U.K.
(Toynbee, once the dean of British historians, comments on the Irish
contribution. If you think Ireland has a minor place in history,
read him.)
The Surnames of Ireland
Edward MacLysaght; Irish Acedemic Press, Co. Dublin, Ireland
(THE authority on Irish surnames.)
The Story of Surnames
L. G. Pine; Tuttle, Vermont, USA
(Excellent chapter on Irish surnames.)
Ulysses
James Joyce; Penguin, U.K.
Vanishing Primitive Man
Timothy Severin; American Heritage Publishing Co., N.Y.
(By looking at existing mesolithic and neolithic societies,
we better understand our own past.)
Vegetables from a Country Garden
Anstace & Larry Esmonde-White; Lee Valley, Canada
(Two Irish gardeners comment on Late Blight in potatoes, and on the
Great Famine)
The World of Lawrence Durrell
Harry T. Moore; E. P. Dutton, N.Y.
(Durrell referred to himself as an Irish writer - and who are we to argue?)
World Prehistory
Grahame Clark; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.