Liam Kelly

I am a 26 year old Celtic fan, born in Bournemouth, hailing from an Irish background. I have loved the history and culture of Celtic Football Club for as long as I can remember. This passion manifest itself in the form of the publication of my first Celtic book, Our Stories & Our Songs: The Celtic Support, in 2015. I decided to write from a unique angle, taking an usual look at the social history of the Celtic support, whilst allowing fans to contribute their thoughts on what the club means and represents to them, as well as their personal Celtic stories from trips to games all over Scotland, Europe and beyond.

Following the success of my first book, I decided that I wanted to take a deeper look into the history of the club. Again, I wanted to make the book unique and decided to focus my research on two key themes: individual incidents & organised events. That project was then complete after three years of hard work, in October 2019. This second Celtic book was titled Take Me To Your Paradise: A history of Celtic-related incidents & events. It has proven very popular and appeals to different generations of Celtic supporters due to its wide ranging content covering a selection of incidents and events from the late 1800s to the present day. Celtic Football Club and Waterstones sold out of copies in their Glasgow stores.

Watch my video interview with stories from Take Me To Your Paradise on Celtic Fanzine TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zxRi35H6eA

My third project, in collaboration with famous Celtic historian, David Potter, and Celtic FC tour guide, Matt Corr, was voted into the best sports books of the year (2020) by The Scotsman. Titled Walfrid & The Bould Bhoys, the book is about the Founding Fathers, first season and early star players of Celtic Football Club.

In December 2020 I published The Holy Grounds Of Glasgow Celtic: A guide to Celtic landmarks and sites of interest. All proceeds go to the Celtic FC Foundation.

Meanwhile, I am currently undertaking a fifth project titled Celtic In The Second World War. This will be published in 2023.