Where did the Celts come from?

[PSYCHO V]

Some of this information I have been able to find elsewhere, but there is a spectacular amount of disinformation to wade through. Any good sources I should gather?

Unfortunately, there are few really good books on the Celts. Most either tend to be the more heavy scholarly type and thus focus either on specifics or broad generalities; usually concentrating on the material culture (archeology, and by association anthropology), or the're just regurgitated and simplified candy. Few cover the issue in a holistic or exhaustive manner (ie history married with archeology etc). To get a good understanding, one is forced to read through just about everything written on the subject and put the pieces together. A very time consuming process...but if one has the interest...

If none bet me to it, I hope one day to write a book / s to see if I can better provide a more exhaustive account of these peoples.

I find Barry Cunliffe often has great insight into the early Celtic world, and Powell as well. If you're more concerned with disinformation and wading through misconception, a great book is The Celts - Origins, Myths and Inventions, which is by John Collis.

Edit; I think it's John Collis. I'm sure PyschoV has the book, he'd know the author. I'm fairly sure it's Collis.

Yer Collis wrote 'Origins, Myths and Inventions'. He also wrote 'Oppida' in 84 and other works on the Iron Age..much of which he's included in his 'Origins, Myths and Inventions' book.
There's some very good info in Collins 'Origins..' but I generally wasn't a huge fan. He never really clearly defines his hypothesis. He raises allot on interesting points which appear on face value to challenge other establish understandings but fails to actually explore that data and provide a clear interpretation himself. As such one tends to come to the conclusion that he has tended to sensationalise and focus on the data that lie outside the mean of normal findings... to focus on the 'statistical outliers'. Imho, this modes operandi is not inducive to one gaining a holistic picture of the data at hand. An interesting read nonetheless.

Cunliffe is exceptional with the material culture but a little weaker on the history. Powell is one of the venerated pioneers of much of our current Celtic study. His works however lack some of the more recent data.

I would recommend A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Berresford Ellis. Nothing too heavy or or scholarly.

Yer, Ellis is good value. If your looking for a more simple / easy to read history of the celts / various tribes, Daithi O' Hogan’s "The Celts, A History" is good. If you’re wanting to start a study on the Celts, I’d definitely start with O’ Hogan.