A professor of Celtic studies at a Welsh university has written a scathing review of a new book claiming that there was no such thing as Celts. Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, a professor of Welsh ...
Drunken, barbaric warriors who went into battle naked against the Romans — or matriarchal societies with refined artistry and extensive trading? Celtic history is an area full of questions, but some ...
What is a badge in any case? It’s a complicated question to answer. Perhaps your football club’s most ubiquitous symbol is a storied, heraldic design harking back to the local coat of arms or a sleek, ...
Wilfried Nancy is the first Old Firm boss to lose his opening four matches - can he recover Celtic's season and survive?
Celtic fans waving Irish tricolours against Rangers in 2009. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) The recent protest by Celtic fans at the Hapoel Be’er Sheva match has raised many talking points ...
Graham Robb is an ambling historian. His best-known book, “The Discovery of France,” was based on his travels over 14,000 miles of road by bicycle. France, he argued, is not the culturally homogenous ...
Peter Berresford Ellis (who writes popular mysteries under the name Peter Tremayne) has written quite a useful new history. "The Celts: A History" explains that by around the third century B.C., ...
That last claim though was slightly vitiated by roaring reconstructions of the Battle of Allia near Rome, about 387 BC. The Romans were defeated by the charges of numerically much inferior forces in ...
It’s the Glasgow derby in Paradise as Celtic take on Rangers in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday (March 16). Brendan Rodgers’ side will be aiming for a positive result to take a huge step toward a ...