Author : Yuko Green
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1998-06-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486403205
Dress this curly-headed Irish lass in kilts, a Kerry cloak, harper's outfit, and other charming, traditional Irish costumes. 25 stickers.
Author : Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0486115887
Noted French scholar and linguist discusses gods of the continental Celts, beginnings of mythology in Ireland, Irish mother-goddesses and chieftain-gods, and heroes.
Author : J. Romilly Allen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486416083
Classic of scholarly research explores origins of Celtic art in Britain, Ireland, and Europe. Illustrated with 44 plates of photographs and line drawings of artifacts from a variety of sites, this study traces Celtic art in the Bronze and early Iron Ages, as well as Celtic art of the Christian period.
Author : John G. Merne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780486419602
Even the most elaborate Celtic pattern boils down to a few basic motifs (including spirals, swastikas, circles, "s" curves, knots, tau crosses, sun signs, etc.). This lavishly illustrated handbook of over 600 designs offers a key to the intricacies of Celtic decoration, showing how the judicious use of these simple symbols, motifs, or ideographs can be used to develop newer and more ambitious patterns to meet the requirements of modern decorative art. Over 600 black-and-white illus.
Author : John Arnott MacCulloch
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486427652
This classic study by a distinguished scholar, first published in 1911, builds upon the surviving texts of the ancient Celtic religion, as well as current folk customs. Topics include nature worship and customs related to the culture of the dead, including rites of rebirth and transmigration.
Author : Charles Squire
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486122093
Splendid compilation of tales ranges from Arthurian myth to less-familiar adventures, such as Finn and his Fenians, plus many other heroic figures from the Gaelic pantheon.
Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486414423
Features 100 poems from Irish poets of the 18th and 19th centuries ? Goldsmith, Sheridan, Moore, Wilde ? plus important lesser-known writers: James Clarence Mangan, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Aubrey de Vere, many more.
Author : T. D. Kendrick
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486427195
Well-documented summary of Druidic culture offers a detailed account of the racial history, prehistory, and social atmosphere of this early Gallic and British civilization. The amply illustrated text considers many theories of the origin of Druidism, its temples and religious practices, and its early mention by Greek and Roman writers.
Author : Lady Gregory
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2001-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486417172
Enthralling accounts of the legendary Cuchulain, the greatest of ancient Ireland's Knights of the Red Branch, tell of his birth and boyhood deeds, exploits in love and war, and premature death, all in the same beautifully simple style Lady Gregory first heard them as a child. Preface by W. B. Yeats.
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Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
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