Celtic Studies Publications

Originally founded in 1994 in the USA, Celtic Studies Publications is a scholarly imprint publishing volumes whose primary focus is on the languages, literatures, and civilizations of the early Celtic peoples. Since 1998 its base is in Aberystwyth, Wales, where its founding editor, John Koch, is Professor at the University of Wales’ Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.

Celtic From The West 3

Celtic From The West 3

The Celtic languages…emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. An exploration from the perspectives of three disciplines, archaeology, genetics and linguistics.

Cambria Gothica

Cambria Gothica

Literary explorations of supernatural horror have, in Wales as elsewhere, been popular with writers and readers alike, as this collection of tales, dating from to 1802 to 1908, aims to demonstrate.

The Adventures and Vagaries  of Twm Shôn Catti

The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti

A light-hearted mother, a free-spirited noble patron and a blushing young sweetheart—young Twm Shôn Catti from Tregaron has it all. But one day, his mischievous temper gets the better of him and he is forced to become an outlaw. This is the story of a young man fallen from grace who eventually makes good by trusting his own wit, daring and poetic talent.

Archaeologia Britannica

Archaeologia Britannica

Edward Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica effectively marks the discovery of the Celtic languages and the founding of Celtic Studies. First published in 1707, this was a groundbreaking work in comparative philology.

The End and Beyond

The End and Beyond

What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common Era, and loomed large in the imaginative universe of early Christianity.

Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation

Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation

Memory and forgetting are fundamental to human existence and experiences of the world. Within archaeology, there has been increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date, however, there has been little specific discussion of how such long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why this was the case. The sixteen papers in this volume use detailed contextual evidence to address these questions.

Tartessian 2

Tartessian 2

The inscription from Mesas do Castelinho, south Portugal, was discovered in September 2008. With 82 readable signs it is now the longest of the corpus of 95 Tartessian inscriptions.

Moment of Earth

Moment of Earth

A major new collection by leading contemporary English-language Welsh poets and literary scholars, including original poems by Gillian Clarke, Sheenagh Pugh, Tony Conran, Philip Gross, and Tony Curtis, essays by Wynn Thomas, Tony Brown, Jane Aaron, and Gavin Edwards, art history by Peter Lord.

An Atlas for Celtic Studies

An Atlas for Celtic Studies

An Atlas for Celtic Studies is a unique and comprehensive reference book that presents a huge amount of information on what is known about the Celts in Europe in the form of detailed maps. It combines thousands of Celtic place- and group names, as well as Celtic inscriptions and other mappable linguistic evidence.

ldánach Ildírech

ldánach Ildírech

An exploration of the links between the languages, cultures and traditions of the Celtic peoples of Ireland and Britain through an analysis of literary sources, place or people names and the Gaelic language.