I am Celtic author and historian and write for The Celtic Star. I live in Kirkcaldy and have followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. I am a retired teacher and my other interests are cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns.
It was with sadness that we heard of the death of Alec Byrne. Alec played for Celtic between 1957 and 1963, and these years immediately tell…
Well, the problem about watching Celtic these days is that there seem to be several Celtics! Even today, there were two of them. We had a…
This was an absolutely shocking performance. This was a Celtic team in name only, and little can be said to mitigate or excuse the performance of…
The build-up throughout Scotland was intense, made all the more so by the fact that the Scottish League was to be decided that day as well.…
In retrospect one can see clearly that the semi-final replay was Gallagher’s career changing moment. It did not necessarily look that way at the time, but…
Every new Manager worth his salt will make a few changes in any case, for he will want his own men. All that Charlie could hope…
HAMPDEN GLORY – Part 1 Jock Stein apparently said soon after he took over at Celtic Park in March 1965 that he wanted to rid himself…
I’m sure that Neil Lennon and Shane Duffy and a few others will be willing to accept the apologies of those who have so maligned them.…
There are several ways of looking at this one. The pessimists (and goodness knows, there are enough of them around!) will tell us that it is…
Celtic have played in 77 Scottish Cup semi-finals. We have won 57 and lost 20 (ignoring draws which went to replays or as in 2016, a…
ON THIS DAY IN 1974 Celtic ended their League Cup Final hoodoo by thrashing a fine Hibs side 6-3. Here’s what happened at Hampden…The 1970s were…
It is time to stop the rot. Celtic must win at Aberdeen. The League season, one feels, is teetering on the brink. It is of course…
Last week on The Celtic Star Matt Corr interviewed Brendan O’Hara, the great-great grandson on Celtic’s first secretary and Founding Father John O’Hara. It’s a exclusive…
Something to cheer you up on a, cough, Blue Monday, for all Celtic supporters. We took a painful one on Saturday and we are still all…
It is perhaps difficult this Sunday and Monday to be happy after what we saw on Saturday, but let us “accentuate the positives” (as they say…
Unacceptable! Unbelievable! Unforgivable! Just what was all this about, Celtic? Why was there no effort? Why, when the team were 0-2 down and time running out,…
In every sense of the word, John Mulrooney was an entertainer. Off the field, he was a comedian and a singer, so much so that he…
We all know, of course, that St Mungo is the patron saint of Glasgow. He lived about the 6th century AD and was sanctified for his…
Earlier today on The Celtic Star Matt Corr interviewed Brendan O’Hara, the great-great grandson on Celtic’s first secretary and Founding Father John O’Hara. It’s a exclusive…
In the 1960s and 1970s, Celtic fans had a song which went along the lines of “ C-e-I-t-i-c, C-e-l-t-i-c, I’d walk a million miles for one…
There was an advert at half-time on SKY TV about how to deal with a certain kind of “dysfunction” which affects men and disappoints women. That…
Phew! A relief to hear the final whistle tonight but a satisfactory performance in all but goal scoring where we should have scored an awful lot…
This was a splendid Celtic performance. I was a little depressed after watching the Motherwell v Rangers game on SKY TV (some dreadful punditry there, by…
The time has come for a biography to be written about one of Celtic’s greatest ever players. I refer to Alec McNair who played for over…
Relying, perforce, on the BBC – radio at the time, TV afterwards – for this one, we are sometimes unduly influenced by what the commentators say…
Perhaps one of the lesser-known Celtic players of the early years, there are those who were of the opinion that Jimmy Blessington was one of the…
It’s a fair bet that 2020 will go down as one of the horror years of world history, as the press,TV and politicians combine to plunge us…
I enjoyed the article about Celtic in 1961 from Matt Corr that was published on The Celtic Star earlier today (you can read that below). Read…
It wouldn’t really matter whether it was the 1st XI, the 2nd XI, or simply 11 guys picked up off the streets, there is the permanent…
Earlier today in our latest extract from Walfrid & The Bould Bhoys, Liam Kelly told the story of David Meikleham the Shoemaker, who was a prominent…
