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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 12/01/201906/02/2024

TELEGRAM TAM: Dundee Harp and the Honest Mistake

  You may have heard of a football club called Dundee Harp.  It is less likely that you have heard of a player called Tom O’Kane.  Yet if it hadn’t…

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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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Posted on 13/08/201813/08/2018

The Shamrockers Rebel Ink Company

T-SHIRTS AND OTHER MERCH Celebrating all things Celtic.   Click on the graphic below to visit our new online t-shirt store: The Shamrockers Rebel Ink Company. If you’d like to…

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Posted on 17/05/201828/07/2021

On a wing and a prayer – the 1931 Scottish Cup Final

In 1931 Celtic were hoping to win the oldest trophy in world football for the thirteenth time.  For Motherwell, two years older than their Glasgow counterparts, it was their first-ever…

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Posted on 16/03/201816/03/2018

MY FIRST CELTIC GAME 03 – FRANK MCGUIRE

  It was my Uncle Peter (Galvin) who took me to my first ever Celtic game.  I was aged 8 at the time and we lived in Govan although, as…

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Posted on 24/08/201724/08/2017

Oh Harry, Harry!

  In the early 1970s the popular Celtic striker Harry Hood had a number of terrace chants in his honour.  Whether with or without moustache or sideburns, Harry had a…

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Green Brigade Original Total Football banner v Ajax
Green Brigade Original Total Football banner v Ajax
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French Celts CSC
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Celtic lion banner, 1970
Celtic lion banner, 1970
Johannesburg CSC
Wim the Tim CSC Anderlecht
Achill Island CSC 1
Wishaw Cross Keys CSC banner
Paul Lambert CSC Linwood and Johnstone
Vale Discoland CSC
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Sydney City Botany Bay CSC
Celtic Go Bragh banner GB
Martin Savage CSC
Grangemouth No.1 CSC
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Baillieston Battalion
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Free Broomloan GB
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Bayou Bhoys, New Orleans
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Our Charlie Doesnt need a Di to Score Sons of Donegal Rotterdam 1981
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Your Day Is Coming
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Port Glasgow Harp CSC
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Your Day Is Coming
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Anton Rogan banner
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Phil O’Donnell tribute banner
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Toronto CSC
YNWA Tommy Burns DR
Wintersgills Neil Lennon 18 CSC
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Pride of Erin CSC Nottingham
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Duntocher Milan 07
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Tommy Craig Celtic Club
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Perth CSC banner
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Neil Lennon Celtic to the Core 2007
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Aiden McGeady banner JB
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SNP give the dog a bone GB
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JFK CSC Perth 1980s 2
Lisbon Lions CSC
Brian Hogan CSC Large tricolour Dublin
Celtic support in Maribor 2014 banners
Sons of Donegal CSC new banner 2014
St Matthew's CSC, Short Strand, East Belfast
St Matthew’s CSC, Short Strand, East Belfast
Rosses Bar CSC
Glens of Antrim CSC
Cardenden Celts
Usual Suspects banner GB
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