Irish Imbas: Celtic Mythology Collection 3

This marks another enjoyable installment of the Celtic Mythology series from Irish Imbas. The stories cover a fair amount of the same mythological content as the previous entries in the series, but manages to provide interesting and sufficiently unique modern tales about selkie, changelings, and other familiar topics.

Another interesting part of the book was O'Sullivan's opening essay on the differences between Irish Mythology and Celtic Fantasy (with his work being firmly in the former category). As someone who was raised in Canada by Irish immigrants, I've always been a bit aware of the distinction although I never really had a good, succinct way of distinguishing between the two. And I'll admit to liking some of the Celtic Fantasy that he scoffs at, but it was mostly for lack of better options. I'm glad to see that there are collections like this out there that are dedicated to showing more accurate versions of these classic stories.