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Celtic was founded as a charity for poor Irish immigrants in Glasgow by Brother Walfrid, a Marist Brother originally from County Sligo, Ireland. [71] Consequently, Celtic is strongly associated with Scotland's Irish Catholic community [72] [73] and have a significant number of supporters in Ireland and among members of the Irish diaspora elsewhere.
The Philo-Celtic Society (Irish: Cumann Carad na Gaeilge) is a North American society founded as part of the Gaelic revival in 1873. Its aims are the promotion of the Irish language as a living tongue in America and throughout the world, and the re-establishment of Irish as the spoken language of Ireland with English as a supplement.
St. Mary's Celtic was an American soccer club based in Brooklyn, New York that was a member of the reformed American Soccer League. The club replaced Brooklyn Celtic before the 1935–36 season. St. Mary's won their first (and only) National Cup in 1939 after beating Manhattan Beer 5–1 on aggregate over two legs. [4]
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Some years after leaving Celtic, he came to enjoy popularity among many or most Celtic supporters that was often absent during his time as the club's chairman. McCann returned to North America where he founded LimoLiner, a company running luxury bus services between Boston and Manhattan. [7] [8] He retired from his role in the company in 2014.
In New York in 2007, the band appeared for the local Celtic Supporters Clubs to raise $5000 which was donated to the Glasgow Cancer Hospice. The band were honoured back in 2004 to head over to Sligo to headline an event to help raise money for the Brother Walfrid Statue.
The New York GAA has a long history in Gaelic games starting at a time of the mass immigration to New York from Ireland. The first organised hurling and football club in New York was founded in 1857. [6] Since then football in New York has grown. At one point there were close to 40 football clubs in the New York GAA league.
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