The Stories and the Songs – Famine, Rebellion and Football
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
*This episode was recorded in February 2020 but it's very relevant in the current climate*
In this episode we do something a little different……..
Chris Gallagher is joined by Mark Braceland as they look into the history of the Irish in Glasgow, as well as Scotland, and how the culture and landscape changed.
We look into the famine and the massive influx of Irish into Scotland, how they settled and the devastating conditions they lived in.
We then look into the political and social aspect of Irish immigration and how that led to the founding of Hibernian, Dundee Hibernian and eventually Glasgow Celtic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Sinek. Today we release an important podcast feature we recorded back in February 2020. |
| 0:07.7 | It's as important today as it was then and it's very relevant overall. |
| 0:12.0 | The stories and the songs, famine, rebellion and football. In this feature, we look at the historical |
| 0:17.5 | relevance that led to the foundation of Glasgow Celtic, the social, |
| 0:21.1 | political and economic elements in Ireland and Scotland that led to an influx of Irish |
| 0:26.4 | settling in Scotland and specifically Glasgow. |
| 0:30.1 | All research and structure of the podcast was done by the fantastic Mark Braceland and |
| 0:34.9 | it's hosted by myself Christopher Gallowher. |
| 0:37.3 | We have a variety of different feature podcasts on the Seneca.co covering a multitude of different |
| 0:43.0 | and interesting subjects. |
| 0:44.7 | This is the stories and the songs, Famine, Rebellion and Football. |
| 0:49.1 | Please listen and enjoy. |
| 1:17.4 | Hello and welcome to the stories and the songs. I'm Christopher Galaher and we are joined by Mark Braceland all the way from Canada. Hello Mark. Hi Chris, how's the good. Not too bad. Just want to mention |
| 1:24.1 | the fact that we did the Nepasasaran podcast about the Spanish Civil War, |
| 1:29.4 | which was very warmly received by everyone, and we want to thank you all for that. |
| 1:34.8 | Mark, you enjoyed taking part on that one, and this is why we're doing a new set of podcasts. |
| 1:40.9 | So today we're going to be talking about, as I say, it's going to be a series of podcasts on |
| 1:47.0 | the history of Celtic, but not just the history of Celtic. Tell us what we're going to be talking about overall, Mark. |
| 1:52.7 | Cheers, Chris. Yeah, really love the No Paseran pod and hoping to sound less robotic this time, |
| 1:58.8 | but still pretty awkward. Hi, so history of Celtic is obviously dear to all of us. |
| 2:04.2 | I'm sure everyone that is Tier 3 CSE will agree that they kind of like Celtic, |
| 2:08.9 | quite like the history of the club, definitely a special club for more reasons than one. |
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