non-fiction works

A CHECKLIST OF THE NON-FICTION WORKS OF PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS

  • Non-Fiction Books
    Listed in chronological order under first world publication (mainly UK but with first US publication where applicable).
    • Wales – A National Again: The Nationalist Struggle for Freedom, Foreword by
    • Gwynfor Evans MP. Library 33 Ltd., London, 1968.
    • The Scottish Insurrection of 1820, Co-authored with Seumas Mac a’ Ghobhainn. Foreword by Hugh MacDiarmid. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1970.
    • The Problem of Language Revival: Examples of Language Survivals, Co-authored with Seumas Mac a’ Ghobhainn, Club Leabhar Ltd., Inverness, Scotland, 1971.
    • A History of the Irish Working Class, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1972.
    • James Connolly: Selected Writings, Edited with an introduction. Pelican Books, Penguin Ltd., London, 1973. (1st US edition, Monthly Review Press, hardcover, New York, 1973).
    • The Cornish Language and its Literature, Routledge & Kegan Paul ltd, 1974.
    • Hell or Connaught: The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1975. (1st US edition, St Martin’s Press, hardcover, New York, 1975).
    • The Boyne Water: The Battle of the Boyne, 1690, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1976 (1st US edition, St Martin’s Press, hardcover, New York, 1976).
    • The Great Fire of London: An Illustrated Account, New English Library, London, 1977.
    • Caesar’s Invasion of Britain, Orbis Publishing, London, 1978. (1st US edition, New York University Press, hardcover, 1980).
      H. Rider Haggard: A Voice from the Infinite, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1978.
    • Macbeth: High King of Scotland 1040-57, Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1980. (1st US edition, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1993).
    • By Jove, Biggles! The Life of Captain W.E. Johns, Co-author Piers Williams, W.H. Allen, London 1981.
    • The Liberty Tree – A Novel, Michael Joseph, London, 1982.
    • The Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy 1879-1940, Donald M. Grant Publishers Inc, Rhode Island, USA. 1984.
    • Celtic Inheritance, Frederick Muller Ltd, London, 1985. (1st US edition, Dorset Press, hardcover, New York, 1992).
    • The Celtic Revolution: A Study in Anti-Imperialism, Y Lolfa Cyf, Ceredigion, Wales, 1985.
    • The Rising of the Moon: A Novel of the Fenian Invasion of Canada, Methuen, London, 1987. (1st US edition, St Martin’s Press, hardcover, New York, 1987).
    • A Dictionary of Irish Mythology, Constable, London, 1987. (1st US edition, ABC Clio, hardcover, Santa Barbara, California, 1989).
    • The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History 1000 BC-AD 51, Constable, London, 1990. (1st US edition, Carolina Academic Press, hardcover, North Carolina, 1991).
    • A Guide to Early Celtic Remains in Britain, Constable Guides, London, 1991.
    • Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Constable, London, 1992. (1st US edition from ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, California, 1992).
    • Celt and Saxon: The Struggle for Britain AD 410-937, Constable, London, 1993.
    • The Celtic Dawn: A History of Pan Celticism, Constable, London, 1993.
    • The Book of Deer (Constable Library of Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts), art by Roy Ellsworth and text by Peter Berresford Ellis. Constable, 1994.
    • The Druids, Constable, London, 1994. (1st US edition, Wm. Eerdmans, hardcover, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995).
    • Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature, Constable, London, 1995. (1st US edition, Wm. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1996).
    • Celt and Greek: Celts in the Hellenic World, Constable, London, 1997.
    • Celt and Roman: The Celts in Italy, Constable, London, 1998. (1st US edition, St Martin’s Press, hardcover, New York, 1998).
    • The Ancient World of the Celts, Constable, London, 1999. (1st US edition, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1999).
    • The Chronicles of the Celts: New tellings of their myths and legends, Robinson, London, 1999. (1st US edition, Carroll & Graf, hardcover, New York, 1999).
    • Erin’s Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland, Constable, London, 1999. (1st US edition, extensively revised and expanded, Palgrave/St Martin’s, hardcover, New York, 2002).
    • Over the Hills and Far Away: A Hurstpierpoint Soldier in Wellington’s Army, Hurst History Study Group, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. 2002.
    • Eyewitness to Irish History, John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York, 2004.
    • The Shadow of Mr Vivian: The Life of E. Charles Vivian 1882-1947 PS Publishing, UK. September, 2014, ISBN 978-1-848637-83-2.

  • Non-Fiction Pamphlets
    Some of Ellis’ pamphlets have been previous listed on sites as books. But these pamphlets are:
    • As Peter Berresford Ellis
      • The Creed of the Celtic Revolution, Introduction By F.A. Ridley, Medusa Press, London, 1969.
      • “Mazzini: His Influence on the Welsh Independence Movement,” Bollettino Domus Mazziniana, University of Pisa, Anno XVI No I, 1970 [reprinted by Domus Mazziniana as a 24pp reprint in English].
      • The Story of the Cornish Language, 32p. Tor Mark Press, Cornwall, 1971.
      • Revisionism in Irish Historical Writing: The New Anti-Nationalist School of Historians, A Connolly Association Broadhseet, London, 1989. (Text of Peter’s 1989 C. Desmond Greaves Memorial Lecture at Conway Hall, London).
      • The Cornish Saints, Tor Mark Press, Cornwall, 1992.
      • Orangeism: Myth and Reality, Connolly Association Broadsheet, London, 1997. (Text of Peter’s lecture at the Irish Labour History Museum, Dublin, 1995).
      • When Was The United Kingdom?, Phoenix Press, North Carolina, USA, Phoenix Press, 2024. (Originally published in 2004, with revisions in 2009, 2016, 2023) [privately distributed]
    • As Peter Tremayne
      • William Hope Hodgson: A Centenary Tribute 1877-1977, British Fantasy Society Booklet No 2, London, November, 1977.
      • Sister Fidelma’s Cashel: The Early Kings of Munster and Their Capital, The International Sister Fidelma Society, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, 2008.

Overall, Ellis’s works have appeared in 25 languages. His signed articles are almost too numerous to count and include several academic papers in the field of Celtic culture and history.

References

  • The Burning of Cork, Gerry White and Brendan O’Shea, Mercier Press, Cork, 2006.
  • The Ellis Family of Millstreet, Millstreet: ‘A Considerable Town,’ Aubane Historical Society, Cork, 2003.
  • Daisy: Growing Up in a Sussex Village, Eva Daisy (Randell) Ellis, Hurstpierpoint Historical Society, Sussex, 2003.
  • Entries on Ellis’s career at various times can be taken from his entries in the following reference works: International Authors’ and Writers’ Who’s Who (Cambridge, UK) from 8th ed 1977 onwards; Contemporary Authors (Detroit, USA) from Vols 81, 1979, onwards; Who’s Who in the World (Chicago, USA), 5th ed. 1980 onwards; European Biographical Directory (Belgium) 1990); Who’s Who in International Affairs (London), 1990; Who’s Who of Authors and Writers (Europa Publications), 2004; The Cambridge Blue Book, (Cambridge, UK), 2005; The Writers’ Directory (Detroit, USA), 2005.
  • Book and Magazine Collector, London, March, 1993 (contains an overview of life and work and bibliography to that date).

A profile of, and tribute to, Ellis and his work as an historian appeared in History Ireland, Vol 17, No 5 September/October, 2009.

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