Fantastic Celtic Fantasy
Discover the best Celtic fantasy books, including Morgan Llywelyn's legendary tales of Irish myth and Steve Lawhead's epic sagas. Explore magical worlds of druids, warriors, and ancient lore in this curated reading list.
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Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
by Morgan Llywelyn
This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own.
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Red Branch
by Morgan Llywelyn
"Powerful . . . A lusty, poetic and legendary world based on Ireland's mythical warrior-hero Cuchulain." The New York Times Book Review In a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set for him in the fatal beauty of Deirdre and the brutal jealousy of King Conor.
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The Paradise War
by Steve Lawhead
While doing graduate work in Celtic studies at Oxford Lewis Gillies goes off in search of his roommate, Simon, who fell through a cairn into the land of the Tuatha de Danann, and finds himself playing roles within important Celtic mythology.