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This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the... Read Full Overview

"Throughout all of Gaul there are two classes of people who are treated with dignity and honor. This does not include the common people, who are little better than slaves and never have a voice in councils. Many of these align themselves with a patron voluntarily, whether because... Read Full Overview

T. W. Rolleston's lengthy compendium of Celtic mythology and ancient lore is a wide-ranging source scarcely paralleled. Painstakingly assembled from years of research into the surviving manuscripts, this exceptional collection of Celtic stories dating to earliest antiquity is... Read Full Overview

T. W. Rolleston's lengthy compendium of Celtic mythology and ancient lore is a wide-ranging source scarcely paralleled. Painstakingly assembled from years of research into the surviving manuscripts, this exceptional collection of Celtic stories dating to earliest antiquity is... Read Full Overview

"Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race" from Thomas William Rolleston. Irish writer, literary figure and translator (1857-1920).

The part played by the Celtic race has a formative influence in the history, literature and the art of the people inhabiting the British Islands, a people which from that center have spread its dominions over so vast an area of the earth's surface, have been unduly obscured in... Read Full Overview

"The Past may be forgotten, but it never dies. The elements which in the most remote times have entered into a nation's composition endure through all its history, and help to mould that history, and to stamp the character and genius of the people.... It is, then, for an Anglo-Celtic,... Read Full Overview