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Rambles is well known for the diversity of its offerings, but there's no denying that the cultural arts of a Celtic nature have been of particular interest to the readers and staff. It's always been easy to find Celtic music -- it's the largest section of this magazine -- but books and movies have been harder to find among the other many fine books and movies reviewed here. So it is with great pleasure that we provide this page to offer some focus -- books and movies of specific interest to Irish aficionados. Enjoy!
Facts, Fiction & Folklore
Brendan Behan
• Borstal Boy
James Bonwick
• Irish Druids & Old Irish Religions
Ciaran Brady, editor
• The Encyclopedia of Ireland
Bill Brennan
• Irish & Scottish Airs & Ballads for Acoustic Guitar
Katharine Briggs
• An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies & Other Supernatural Creatures
Angela Bourke
• The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Robert Byrd
• Finn MacCoul & His Fearless Wife
Philip Carr-Gomm
• The Druid Way
• The Elements of the Druid Tradition
Karan Casey & Friends
• Seal Maiden, a Celtic Musical
Ron Chepesiuk
• The Scotch-Irish: From the North of Ireland to the Making of America
Peter Cooper
• Mel Bay's Complete Irish Fiddle Player
Lisle Crowley
• Easy Celtic Solos for Fingerstyle Guitar
Matthew J. Culligan & Peter Cherici
• The Wandering Irish in Europe: Their Influence from the Dark Ages to Modern Times
Elizabeth Cunningham
• Daughter of the Shining Isles
Bob Curran
• A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, illustrated by Andrew Whitsun
• The Truth about the Leprechaun
Annabel Davis-Goff
• The Fox's Walk
Terry Deary
• Horrible Histories: Ireland
Roddy Doyle
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
• Yeats is Dead!, et al
Stephen Dunford
• In Humbert's Footsteps: Mayo 1798
S.M.W. Dunnit, editor
• Irish Lore & Legends
Randy Lee Eickhoff
• The Destruction of the Inn
• The Feast
• The Raid
• The Sorrows
Peter Berresford Ellis
• The Celtic Revolution
Robert C. Evans, editor
• Frank O'Connor's "Ghosts"
Eleanor Fairburn
• The White Seahorse
Tony Farmar
• Privileged Lives
Jim Fitzpatrick
• The Book of Conquests
• The Silver Arm
Charles Foran
• Carolan's Farewell
Barry Foy
• Field Guide to the Irish Music Session
Cari Fuchs, editor
• Irish Session Tune Book
Liam Gaul
• Glory O! Glory O!: The Life of P.J. McCall
• Masters of Irish Music
Dan Gelo
• Fiddle Tunes & Irish Music for Guitar
Patricia Reilly Giff
• Maggie's Door
John Glatt
• The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography
Peter Gray
• The Irish Famine
Stefan Grossman, Duck Baker & El McMeen
• Mel Bay's Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Book
Thomas E. Hachey
• Britain & Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State
Peter Haining, editor
• Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
Colin Harper & Trevor Hodgett
• Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History
Margaret Hawkins
• Restless Spirit
Kate Horsley
• Confessions of a Pagan Nun
Hugin the Bard
• A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs: Stories & Music from the Celtic World
Colin Irwin
• In Search of the Craic: One Man's Pub Crawl Through Irish Music
Simon James
• The World of the Celts
Conan Kennedy
• Ancient Ireland: The User's Guide
Sharon Kennedy
• More Irish Folk Tales for Children
Larry Kirwan
• A History of Irish Music
Ken Kolodner
• Walking Stones: Music from A Celtic Sojourn for Hammered Dulcimer
Una Leavy
• Irish Fairy Tales & Legends
Eddie Lenihan & Carolyn Eve Green
• Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland
Edmund Lenihan
• In Search of Biddy Early
Morgan Llywelyn
• Bard
• Finn MacCool
• The Isles of the Blest
• 1916
• 1921
• 1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State
Michael Patrick MacDonald
• All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)
• Poems to Eimhir (Dain do Eimhir)
Liam MacUistin
• The Hunt for Diarmaid & Grainne
Juliet Marillier
• Sevenwaters #1: Daughter of the Forest
• Sevenwaters #2: Son of the Shadows
• Sevenwaters #3: Child of the Prophecy
Caitlin Matthews
• The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year
William McCarter
• My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien
Frank McCourt
• Angela's Ashes
• 'Tis
Frank McCourt, et al
• Yeats is Dead!
Malachy McCourt
• A Monk Swimming
• Singing My Him Song
Martin McGartland
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
David McWilliams
• The Pope's Children
Martin Melhuish
• Celtic Tides: Traditional Music in a New Age
O.R. Melling
• The Druid's Tune
• The Hunter's Moon
• The Light-Bearer's Daughter
• The Summer King
Christy Moore
• One Voice: My Life in Song
Thomas Moran
• Water, Carry Me: A Love Story
Cole Moreton
• Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
Robert Mouland
• Fireside Tales: Stories & Music from the Irish Tradition
Paul Rhys Mountfort
• Ogam, the Celtic Oracle of the Trees
Don Mullan
• Eyewitness Bloody Sunday: The Truth
Ed Munger
• Jigs & Reels for Classic Guitar
Colin Murphy & Donal O'Dea
• The Book of Deadly Irish Quotations Some Smart Fecker in the Pub is Always Blatherin' on About
• The Book of Feckin' Irish Slang That's Great Craic for Cute Hoors & Bowsies
• The Book of Irish Songs Yer Oul' Fella Always Sang When He was Jarred at a Hooley
• The Book of Luvely Irish Recipes Yer Ma Useta Make When You were a Little Gurrier
James L. Nelson
• The Norsemen Saga #1: Fin Gall
Tomas O'Canainn
• Traditional Music in Ireland
Turlough O'Carolan
• The Complete Works of O'Carolan
Joseph O'Connor
• Star of the Sea
Ulick O'Connor
• Michael Collins & the Troubles: The Struggle for Irish Freedom 1912-1922
Daithi O'Hogain
• Irish Superstitions
Diarmuid O'Neill, editor
• Rebuilding the Celtic Languages
Juilene Osborne-McKnight
• I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian
Pat O'Shea
• The Hounds of the Morrigan
Fintan O'Toole
• The Ex-Isle of Erin
Cyril A. Reilly & Renee Travis Reilly
• An Irish Blessing
Emilie Richards
• The Parting Glass
• Whiskey Island
Fiona Ritchie, with Mychael & Jeff Danna
• A Celtic Tale: The Legend of Deirdre
Trina Robbins
• Wild Irish Roses
Sacred Symbols: The Celts
Eric Roth, with Eileen McNamara
• The Parting Glass: A Toast to the Traditional Pubs of Ireland
Maggie Sansone
• A Traveler's Dream: Celtic Explorations for Hammered Dulcimer
Robert D. San Souci
• Brave Margaret, illustrated by Sally Wern Comport
June Skinner Sawyers
• The Complete Guide to Celtic Music
Michael Scott
• The Last of the Fianna
Olive Sharkey
• Ways of Old: Traditional Life in Ireland
Hugh Shields
• Tunes of the Munster Pipers: Irish Traditional Music from the James Goodman Manuscripts
George Otto Simms
• Brendan the Navigator
William L. Smith
• Irish Priests in the United States: A Vanishing Subculture
Soodlum's
• Irish Ballad Book
Eddie Stack
• The West, with Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
Bodie & Brock Thoene
• The Galway Chronicles #1: Only the River Runs Free
• The Galway Chronicles #2: Of Men & of Angels
Loreto Todd
• A Fire in His Head: Stories of Wandering Aengus
Peter Tremayne
• Our Lady of Darkness
Barry Vann
• Rediscovering the South's Celtic Heritage
Richard Voss
• O'Carolan's Tunes for Descant/Soprano Recorder
Richard Voss & Laurence Traiger
• O'Carolan's Tunes for Piano
• Roving Through Ireland: Piano Solos of Traditional Irish Folk Music
Geoff Wallis & Sue Wilson
• The Rough Guide to Irish Music
Washington Area Folk Harp Society, with Heather Yule
• The Song of the Selkie
David A. Wilson
• Ireland, a Bicycle & a Tin Whistle
Peter Lamborn Wilson
• Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma
Terri Windling
• The Changeling
Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith & Charles Woodham
• The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849
Elvira Woodruff
• Small Beauties
William Butler Yeats
• Selected Poems & Three Plays
Films
The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
The Butcher Boy (1997)
Cal (1985)
Circle of Friends (1995)
Dervish: The Midsummer's Night Session (1999)
The Devil's Own (1997)
An Everlasing Piece (2000)
The Field (1990)
Freedom Highway: Songs That Shaped a Century (2001)
Gangs of New York (2002)
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Into the West (1992)
The Matchmaker (1997)
The Nephew (1998)
Once (2007)
Pints, Pounds & Pilgrims (2001)
The Quiet Man (1952)
The Run of the Country (1995)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
The Snapper (1993)
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
Music
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