Celtic Bibliography

Binchy, D.A. (ed.) _Studies in Early Irish Law_ (Dublin, 1936).

Bitel, Lisa. "Sin, Sex and Celibacy in Early Medieval Ireland"

Proc. of Harvard Celtic Colloq. 7 (1987): 65-95.

Breatnach, R.A. "The Lady and the King," Studies 42 (1953),

321-336.

Carey, John. "Notes on the Irish War-Goddess," Eigse 29:2

(1983):263-275.

Davies, Wendy. "Celtic Women in the Early Middle Ages," in

_Images of Women in Antiquity_ ed. A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt (London, 1983): 145-166.

Ford, Patrick. "Celtic Women: The Opposing Sex," Viator 19 (1989),

417-438.

Cath Maige Tuired, ed. E. Gray. Irish Texts Society 52 (1982).

Mac Cana, P. "Aspects of the Theme of King and Goddess in Irish

Literature," Etudes Celtiques 7 (1955-56):76-114, 356-413; EC 8 (1958-59):59-65.
_____. Celtic Mythology. (London, 1970). _____. "Women in Irish Mythology." The Crane Bag 4:1 (1980):7-11.

MacCurtain, M. and O Corrain, D. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension. (Dublin, 1974; rpt. 1984).

Ni Bhrolchain, M. "Women in Early Irish Myths and Sagas," The Crane Bag 4:1 (1980):12-19.

O Maille, T. "Medb Cruachna," ZCP 17 (1927-28):129-46.

Tymoczko, M. "Unity and Duality: A Theoretical Perspective on the Ambivalence of Celtic Goddesses", Proc. of Harvard Celtic Colloq. 5 (1985): 22-37.

The Welsh Law of Women. Ed. D. Jenkins and M. Owen. (Cardiff, 1980).

Wood, Juliette. "Celtic Goddesses: Myth and Mythology" in _The Feminist Companion to Mythology_, ed. C. Larrington. 1992.

This is by no means exhaustive, but I don't want to bore people. Most people tend to trip over Jean Markale's _Women of the Celts_ which is really rather dubious. Mary Condren's _The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland_ (1989) attempts to put the patriarchal plotinto a historical perspective (if you like conspiracy theories), but even she does not question the fact that a patriarchal society was well in place in Ireland long before Christianity appeared. (While some of what she says is interesting, she is rather indiscriminate in her use of sources to support her overriding political agenda, so I am cautious).

Dorothy Bray, McGill University

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