Peter Lawwell handed a history lesson

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Think quite a few anti-Irish bigots need tae read this very good piece as well...

"Historian questions Celtic chief's Irish Republican comments

Gerry Braiden
Senior reporter
Friday 6 March 2015
SCOTLAND'S preeminent historian has taken Celtic's chief executive Peter Lawwell to task over his claims the club has no connection with historic Irish Republicanism.


Professor Sir Tom Devine said many of the club's first board of directors were prominent Irish Nationalist figures, with the original turf laid at Celtic Park by one of the Victorian Ireland's leading Republicans

It comes after Mr Lawwell, at an event to mark a new kit deal with sportswear giant New Balance, said Celtic had no attachment, historically or now, with Irish Republican identity.

But Sir Tom, the leading authority on the history of the Irish in Scotland, questioned the Celtic supremo's grasp of the club's past.

He said: "In terms of the official representation and official connections he is right. But people assoc

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Ok would of those founding board members mentioned fit in to the SPFL' s fit and proper person guidelines :-D
colourful history as it is, should politics let a loan politics of another country be prevalent in a modern forward thinking football club and their fans???

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"adding Celtic had no problem with offensive behaviour at Celtic Park."




Bomm Boom !!

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Ok would of those founding board members mentioned fit in to the SPFL' s fit and proper person guidelines :-D
colourful history as it is, should politics let a loan politics of another country be prevalent in a modern forward thinking football club and their fans???

Its a myth that there's actually a "fit and proper person" test. The only real guideline is to stop anyone becoming a Director of a club after being a Director of a liquidated club, soon after. Neither Paul Murray nor Dave King meet the criteria.

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Bomm Boom !![/quote]

Offensive behaviour is ignored, no problem ...

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But Sir Tom, the leading authority on the history of the Irish in Scotland, questioned the Celtic supremo's grasp of the club's past.
He said: "In terms of the official representation and official connections he is right. But people associated with the club were certainly Irish Republican.

Allow me to play Devils advocate. As chief exec of Celtic should he only be stating the official representation and official connections of the plc only?

You don't have to do much to be associated with the club, buying a season ticket is good enough. It worked for rod Stewart! I'd like to see Donald Finlay to likewise.


"Celtic have no problem with offensive behaviour"
ha ha like yer style min.

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"Celtic flew a flag given to the club by Eamon De Valera"

Did De Valera give them any of his Naz1 memorabilia along with the flag?

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Did De Valera give them any of his Naz1 memorabilia along with the flag?[/quote]

You need look no further than revered Ibrox hero, Billy Fullarton, for someone with a fine collection of Naz1 memorabilia.

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Are you saying one of the Ibrox heroes, who Waldo still complains has been proscribed from said Ibrox, and the buns are not allowed to glorify him, has n@zi connections? Shocker.

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Are you saying one of the Ibrox heroes, who Waldo still complains has been proscribed from said Ibrox, and the buns are not allowed to glorify him, has n@zi connections? Shocker.

Allow me to indulge in a spot of whataboutery

"In the late 1930s, Billy Fullerton joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and he even started a Glasgow branch of the Ku Klux Klan. As well as despising people of colour, the KKK was also an anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic organisation and many of its founding members in America had been of Scots and Ulster-Scots (Scots-Irish) ancestry, the original Hillbillies."

Like this bit though, shows how big a fud he was...

"One of the ironies of Fullerton's life was that he often worked for Bridgeton bookmaker and boxing promoter Tommy Gilmour, who was a Catholic. Fullerton was often employed by Gilmour to erect boxing rings, an occupation for which he had a reputation as a specialist. Furthermore, after