Celtic war hero commemorated by local community
Peter Johnstone, former miner and famed Celtic player who died in World War 1, is finally being commemorated in his local community in Fife – thanks to the local Celtic…
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Celtic Snippets – An early football special! (1894)
The Bear has been busy in the Celtic archives and come up with these details of how the Celtic players and fans travelled together to Edinburgh for an important…
CELTIC SNIPPETS – THE CELTIC VIEW FROM YESTERYEAR
The Shamrock’s esteemed Johnstone correspondent, The Bear, has been sent into the Celtic salt mines, our god-forsaken archives, to dig up snippets which give an insight into the club’s early…
The Cumbie Boys . . . “Parkheid is their new Jerusalem!”
Stumbled across a mention of this song in an old Celtic magazine about the infamous Gorbals gang, the Cumbie Boys (from Cumberland Street) in a 60s song made famous…
THE CELTIC METHOD
THE CELTIC METHOD: From Oscar Wilde and Porridge to DeNiro and the Game of Thrones ‘I think the more experience you have of life, the better it is for an…
Tribute song to Celtic’s Black Arrow: Gil Heron
Listen to Michael Marra and The Hazey Janes’ aural tribute to the pioneering Celt: When Duke was in the Lebanon Groovin’ for the human race Gil flew high in the…
THE NOBLE STRIDE – Celtic’s Black Arrow and his son, the Godfather of Rap.
Our article on the first black professional footballer in the USA and Scotland – and Michael Marra’s wonderful tribute song, ‘The Flight of the Heron’, has had over a thousand…
THE NOBLE STRIDE – Celtic and the Pioneering Herons
“My father still keeps up with what Celtic are doing. You Scottish folk always mention that my Dad played for Celtic, it’s a blessing from the spirits! Like that’s two…
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