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Posted on 09/11/201927/01/2021

Book Review: Take Me to Your Paradise

  This book is sub-titled ‘A History of Celtic-related Incidents and Events’ and even that doesn’t seem to capture the huge range of stories which are contained in over 370…

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Posted on 06/11/2019

LAZIO, AGAIN by Tom Campbell

During World War Two (and for some years afterwards) a popular song by Vera Lynn contained these words: “We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, Don’t know when … but I know…

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Posted on 01/10/201928/01/2021

Tom Duff – The Unholy Goalie

It was deadly silent in the Celtic changing room on New Year’s Day 1892.  The players did not know where to look.  Five goals down to Dumbarton at half-time without…

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Posted on 20/09/201906/11/2019

An Interview with Tom Campbell

Born in Glasgow in 1934, Tom Campbell emigrated to Canada in 1956. After obtaining an Honours degree in English Literature from Ottawa’s Carleton University, he spent four years at St…

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Posted on 12/09/201928/01/2021

BOOK REVIEW: A VERY DIFFERENT PARADISE

Review: ‘A Very Different Paradise’ by Tom Campbell ‘And if you know your history’ goes the most famous of the Celtic songs.  How about, knowing that history better than most,…

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Posted on 11/09/201905/12/2020

‘A Very Different PARADISE’ BY TOM CAMPBELL – buy it here

The latest book by acclaimed Celtic writer and historian Tom Campbell is a dramatic re-imagining of a ‘sliding doors’ moment in the fascinating history of Celtic Football Club . .…

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Posted on 17/06/201906/11/2019

Will Quinn – Celtic’s Medicine Man

  Will Quinn was a fixture at Celtic Park for almost three decades. Employed as both trainer and also groundsman under Willie Maley from 1912 through to the late 1930s,…

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Posted on 22/08/2018

Issue 5 of The Shamrock – out now

Issue 5 of the Celtic retro fanzine The Shamrock is  now on sale.  Read all about Celtic’s furthest ever away day (Argentina and Uruguay), The Parson of Parkhead, The Sorrowful Mystery that was…

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