Celtic Lives: Inspiring Biographies and Memoirs
Discover the stories of notable Celts in our Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs section. Experience personal journeys and historical impacts through these compelling narratives. For more on Celtic culture, consider browsing our Art and Body, Mind and Spirit collections.
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The Endless Tide
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781912476589
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
416 Pages
In The Endless Tide, Iain R. Thomson turns his attention to the Hebrides, and the collection of stories that permeate the area. Meeting a vast cast of characters, he ranges from personal anecdotes of...
Desperate Rants and Magic Pants
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781912631513
Pub Date: 2024-11-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
272 Pages
ITV Wales News anchor Andrea Byrne tells the story of the battle she and rugby star husband Lee Byrne faced in trying to start a family. Seven long years of invasive medical procedures and alternative...
Dancing in the Streets
The Story of a Glasgow Upbringing
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781780278902
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
This is Glasgow journalist Cliff Hanley’s sparkling, unsentimental and uproariously funny account of growing up in the Gallowgate and then Shettleston in the 1920s and 1930s and his working life as...
Welsh Folk Dance Recollections
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800995741
Pub Date: 2024-09-17
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
208 Pages
Having discovered Welsh folk dancing as a freshman student at University College of Wales, Swansea, in 1960, Tenby-born Mavis Williams-Roberts became hooked for life on this Welsh tradition. She joined...
The Soap Man
Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 9781839830594
Pub Date: 2024-09-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
256 Pages
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise...
Big Dream, Little Boat
A Kayaker’s Journey Around Ireland
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781739789299
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
336 Pages
Battling time, tide and the weather, Big Dream, Little Boat is a compelling account of one man’s journey by kayak around the island of Ireland. Kevin O’Sullivan, an Aer Lingus pilot based in Skerries...
Running Through My Life
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781800995734
Pub Date: 2024-08-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
320 Pages
Autobiography of the late Ron Jones (1934–2021), one of the all-time greats of Welsh athletics. He had an incredible sporting career, firstly as an international sprint runner, and then, on retirement,...
Churchill: The Scottish Years
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780278599
Pub Date: 2024-08-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
Churchill: The Scottish Years tells the incredible story of how the god-fearing teetotaller Edwin Scrymgeour fought and won an election against Britain’s most famous politician. The story begins with their first electoral contest in 1908 and follows their political rivalry over the next five elections until Scrymgeour’s eventual victory in 1922.
The Endless Tide
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781912476589
Pub Date: 2025-11-07
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
416 Pages
Desperate Rants and Magic Pants
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781912631513
Pub Date: 2024-11-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
272 Pages
Dancing in the Streets
The Story of a Glasgow Upbringing
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781780278902
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages
Welsh Folk Dance Recollections
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800995741
Pub Date: 2024-09-17
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
208 Pages
The Soap Man
Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 9781839830594
Pub Date: 2024-09-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
256 Pages
Big Dream, Little Boat
A Kayaker’s Journey Around Ireland
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781739789299
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
336 Pages
Running Through My Life
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781800995734
Pub Date: 2024-08-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
320 Pages
Churchill: The Scottish Years
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9781780278599
Pub Date: 2024-08-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Birlinn
288 Pages