Tutor & repertory books
Ann Heymann, 'First Tunes', 'Coupled Hands', 'Off the Record' and 'Legacy'
Cynthia Cathcart, 'Pathway' and 'From My Music Stand'
Andrew Lawrence-King, 'Der Harpfenschlaeger'
Bill Taylor, 'Fingernail technique'

History books
James Porter (ed), 'Defining Strains: The Musical Life of Scots in the Seventeenth Century'
Roy Johnston, 'Bunting's Messiah'
Keith Sanger and Alison Kinnaird, 'Tree of Strings'
John Magee, 'The Heritage of the Harp'
Séamus Ó Brógáin, 'The Irish harp Emblem'
Joan Rimmer, 'The Irish Harp'
Martin van Schaik, 'The harp in the Middle Ages' and 'Aspects of the Historical Harp'
George Stevens, 'Historical Notes on the Irish Harp'
Christine Y Delyn, 'Cláirseach, la harpe Irlandaise'
Gráinne Yeats, 'The Harp of Ireland'
Jim Hunter, O'Hampsey, The Last of the Bards
Nora Joan Clark, 'The Story of the Irish Harp'
Donal O'Sullivan, 'Carolan, the life times and music'
Pekka Toivanen, 'The Pencerdd's Toolkit'
Historical stringing: 'The metallurgy of 17th & 18th century music wire'

Gaelic song
Turlough Carolan, 'Amhráin Chearbhalláin: The Poems of Carolan' (Ed Tomás Ó Máille)
Anne Lorne Gillies, 'Songs of Gaelic Scotland'
William Matheson, 'The Blind Harper'
Colm Ó Baoill, 'Bàrdachd Shìlis na Ceapaich' and 'Gàir nan Clàrsach'
Breandán Ó Madagáin, 'Caointe agus Seanceolta Eile'

Facsimiles and historical sources
Daniel Dow, 'Ancient Scots Music'
James Oswald, 'Caledonian Pocket Companion'
John Gunn, 'Historical Enquiry'
Eugene O'Curry, 'The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish'
Simon Fraser, 'Airs and Melodies'
Scottish lute books
William Lawes, 'The Harp Consorts'

Background and general reading
David Johnson, 'Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century'
John Purser, 'Scotland's Music'
Scottish Life and Culture, 'Oral Literature'
Barry Cunliffe, 'The Celts'
Sean O'Boyle, 'Ogam the Poets Secret'
Russell Walton, 'A Harp of Fishbones'
Hugh Cheape, 'Bagpipes'