10 Facts About Belfast Celtic

Belfast Celtic Football Club was a football club founded in 1891 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Belfast Celtic were one of four clubs that attracted the biggest crowds in the Irish League, the other three being Linfield, Distillery, and Glentoran.

Belfast Celtic won their first league title in 1900 after beating fierce rivals Linfield by a single goal.

Belfast Celtic were winning for most of the match but Linfield equalised in the final minute.

Ecstatic Linfield fans invaded the pitch and began attacking several Belfast Celtic players, including centre-forward Jimmy Jones, who suffered a broken leg and was kicked unconscious, and Robin Lawlor and Kevin McAlinden, who were both seriously hurt.

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Belfast Celtic felt that the response from the Irish Football Association had been wholly inadequate.

Belfast Celtic requested me to carry one end and proceed in front of the team.

Club would never again play a competitive match but played several friendlies, including a match at home to Glasgow Celtic on 17 May 1952, when a team of ex-Belfast Celtic players took the field under the name of 'Newry FC ' in aid of De La Salle Boys' Home in County Down.

Belfast Celtic Park continued to function as a greyhound racing stadium until 1985, when it was demolished and replaced by the Park Centre, a small shopping centre.

The play concerns the team rivalry and the subtle irony of the fact that Elisha Scott of Belfast Celtic was a Protestant, while Gerry Morgan was Catholic.