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A commemorative sculpture of Walfrid was erected outside Celtic Park on 5 November 2005. Brother Walfrid sculpture at Celtic Park. The 3.2-metre-high (10 ft) sculpture by Kate Robinson was cast in bronze and its pedestal carved from granite. The statue cost £30,000 which was funded entirely by donations organised by the Brother Walfrid ...
Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic F.C.. Celtic Football Club was formally constituted at a meeting in St. Mary's church hall in East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton, Glasgow, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid [1] on 6 November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the East End of Glasgow by raising money for the charity Walfrid had instituted, the Poor Children's Dinner Table ...
Located to the south-east of the Eastern Necropolis graveyard in the Parkhead district of Glasgow, Celtic Park was opened on 8 May 1888. [2] The club had obtained a lease on the site on 13 November 1887, [1] and over the next six months Celtic founder Brother Walfrid brought together a large group of Irish volunteers to build the ground; [3] they erected an uncovered stand with a capacity of ...
The club was founded by an Irish Catholic Marist, Brother Walfrid, and many of the early players were of Irish descent after immigrating to the east of Glasgow, escaping famine and political unrest.
Celtic Football Club was formally constituted at a meeting in St. Mary's church hall in East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton, Glasgow, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid [7] on 6 November 1887, with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the East End of Glasgow by raising money for the charity Walfrid had instituted, the Poor Children's ...
Robinson's statue of Brother Walfrid at Celtic Park. Kate Robinson is a sculptor and writer. [1] [2]One of several floor etchings outside the Ramshorn Theatre in Glasgow. She obtained a 1st class BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, completing her Phd at University of Glasgow, published by Dunedin Academic Press in 2006 as The Whirlpool of Artifice.
Celtic Park, Glasgow: 2011 John McKenna [40] Jimmy "Jinky" Johnstone: Jimmy Johnstone Memorial Garden, Old Edinburgh Road, View Park, Lanarkshire: 2011 John McKenna [41] [42] Jimmy Johnstone: Celtic Park, Glasgow 2008 Kate Robinson [43] Brother Walfrid: Celtic Park, Glasgow 2005 Kate Robinson [44] (The Splash) - Tom Finney: Deepdale, Preston ...
Celtic was founded as a charity for poor Irish immigrants in Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a Marist Brother originally from County Sligo, Ireland. [77] Consequently, Celtic is strongly associated with Scotland's Irish Catholic community [78] [79] and have a significant number of supporters in Ireland and among members of the Irish diaspora elsewhere.