Links to Celtic Literature

General Celtic Literature

Celtic Literature Library
http://celtdigital.org/Celtlit.htm
Links to medieval Celtic literature sites on the World Wide Web.

Celtic Literature Collective
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts
Archive of electronic texts produced in the "Celtic" countries.

Irish Literature

The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
http://www.iasil.org/
IASIL was founded in 1969 to promote the teaching and study of Irish literature.

American Conference for Irish Studies
http://www.acisweb.com/
Scholarly organization in all fields of Irish Studies, poetry and fiction readings, films, and performances of Irish music and plays.

Celt: Corpus of Electronic Test
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
Searchable online textbase consisting of over 900 contemporary and historical documents.

Gaelic Book Council
http://www.gaelicbooks.net/
An Irish based organization dedicated to the preservation, sales and distribution of antiquarian books/literature.

Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/
A site totally dedicated to all forms of Irish literature.

Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature
http://irish-literature.english.dal.ca/
A biographical link to some of Ireland's most famous authors.

CELT, Corpus of Electronic Texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/
The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics.

Irish Writers On-line
http://www.irishwriters-online.com/
A concise bio-bibliographical dictionary of irish writers.

Irish Literature Abridged
http://celtdigital.org/Ireland.htm

Medieval Irish Poetry
http://www.dnaco.net/~mobrien/irishptr/ptryindx.html
Provides medieval poetry in Irish and annotated English translation.

A Bibliography Of Modern Gaelic Literature In Translation http://www.library.ucg.ie/bibltran/

Scottish Literature

The Association for Scottish Literary Studies
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/
Association promotes the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland.

Bibliography of Scottish Literature
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/ScotLit/bibliography/

Scottish Literature Guide
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/s/scottishliterature.htm
A catalogue of Internet Resources on Scottish literature and poetry.

Writing Scotland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/web_guide/
A selection of sites offering free electronic texts.

Akerbeltz
http://www.akerbeltz.org/
Collection of Scottish Gaelic resources, including a dictionary of idioms and expressions, notes on grammar, selections of traditional rhymes and riddles, and information on names and surnames.

Scottish Libraries Across The Internet
http://www.slainte.org.uk/
Information on people, organisations, libraries, events, and resources of Scottish interest.

Scottish Poetry Library
http://www.spl.org.uk/
The emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic, and English

STARN: Scots Teaching and Resource Network
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/starn/ Collection of Scottish literary and non-literary materials, particularly Scottish literature and varieties of Scots language.

Welsh Literature

The Welsh Academy
http://www.academi.org/
The Welsh Academy is a national society which promotes the writers and the literatures of Wales

North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/naaswch.html
Multidisciplinary association of scholars, teachers and individuals dedicated to advancing scholarship on Welsh studies.

Welsh Books Council
http://www.cllc.org.uk/home.html
The council aims to stimulate interest in books in Welsh and books of Welsh interest in English.

Cyfwe - Welsh Literature in Translation
http://www.cyfwe.org/index2.cfm
Contemporary Welsh literature translated into numerous languages, with parallel texts and commentary.

A Wales Reading List
http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/bibsplit/anglistik/wal_bks.html
An annotated list of Welsh travel writing, history, literature, and other information on Wales.

V Wales: Stories from Welsh History and Folklore
http://www.red4.co.uk/folklore.htm
These pages contain a constantly growing range of stories, folklore and poetry from Wales' past.

Welsh Literature
http://celtdigital.org/wales.htm

Medieval Welsh Literature to c.1400
http://www.uwp.co.uk/book_desc/rb1.html
A personal guide to University of Wales Press publications.

The Mabinongion
http://www.zinescene.org/mabin/
The Mabinogion is a group of Welsh tales from the Red Book of Hergest, a 14th Century manuscript. Translated from the Welsh by Lady Charlotte Guest (1849).