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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 Committee, including £5,000 from then chairman of the club, Brian Quinn. [1]
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 ...
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 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 ...
Brother Walfrid, the man who founded Celtic Football Club, also helped to found the school. [4] The school became part of the state school system in 1981, but still accepts Catholic students as priority. The school was a boys' school to begin with, and the first female pupils were admitted as day pupils in the early 1970s.
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 ...
Brother Walfrid: Celtic Park, Glasgow 2005 Kate Robinson [44] (The Splash) - Tom Finney: Deepdale, Preston: 2004 Peter Hodgkinson [45] Duncan Edwards: Dudley, West Midlands: 1999 James Butler [46] Hughie McIlmoyle: Brunton Park, Carlisle: 2005 [47] George Hardwick: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough: 2000 Keith Maddison [48] Wilf Mannion ...
Brother Walfrid the Marist Brother was the first headmaster of the parish school - Sacred Heart School. Born Andrew Kerins in the village of Ballymote in County Sligo in Ireland, he joined the Marist order in his Twenties, moving to Scotland in 1870.