Celtic Discussion

**lopez** · 14/11/2003, 6:09 PM

Junior: I know the place. My old man used to work in Lucas down there but since been torn down.

Obviously joking about HH and culture, although the aforementioned Pope Adrian IV was born just outside (hence Breakspear Way onto the M1).

I don't drink there often either unless you count the front room. Still not as bad as neighbouring Chesham...have you seen Deliverance?...or Hatfield which I see they've made life there into a film called The Martins starring Kathy Burke and Lee Evans. It's Ballymun without the red lemonade.

**Rebel Bhoy** · 20/11/2003, 10:00 AM

I've just joined up and it seems as though I have missed all the furore over my team but seem to have stumbled into something else entirely. I went to St Mary's in Twickenham to do Irish Studies and last year I went to North London (now London Met) to try and learn a bit of Irish. I wasn't much good at it. I found that you were spot on aboyut the Irish books they have at north London. So much so that the local libraries in Haringey and Islington ended up throwing out a load of Irish books because NL was the best resourced library in this area.
The reason that there are so many studies/books written about the Irish is the spread of the diaspora is so wide and varied that we basically just make good reading!

**Plastic Paddy** · 24/11/2003, 2:38 PM

Originally posted by Junior
Hi Lopez/PP

When I was wokring in Hemel for a few years, I did an evening course in Irish studies at North London, really enjoyed it but only managed the one term as the journey after work was a struggle to get there on time...

I don't suppose either of you, or anyone else out there has any ideas?

Junior

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

One of the places I also tried was the old Bath CHE, which I believe is now Bath Spa University College. IIRC, they did a correspondence/residential style course, which might suit your needs. Bath was the home to the British Association for Irish Studies, which has now moved to Royal Holloway College, part of the University of London. Their website is at http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/ and will probably have all the answers you need. If not, they'll know exactly who does.

Hope that's of some use.

Originally posted by Rebel Bhoy
I've just joined up and it seems as though I have missed all the furore over my team but seem to have stumbled into something else entirely.

Despite being a Celtic fan, I tried to avoid joining this debate too, Rebel Bhoy. You get sucked in eventually...

On the subject of Irish books and North London, I always used to frequent the Four Provinces bookshop in Archway. Wonderful place and knowledgeable staff too. Another reason why the aforementioned libraries were devoid of stock.

PP

PS Nice Terence MacSwiney quote btw...

**Rebel Bhoy** · 24/11/2003, 3:52 PM

Cheers PP. The one in Archway was Green Ink wasn't it? They were fantastic in there. Its been closed a while now. I think the guy who owned it sold up and moved back to Ireland. The 4 provinces is on the Grays inn road. About 300 yards from where I am sat right now. Its much smaller, but the staff really know their stuff and are always up for a chat about this and that.
Its my favourite subject talking about Celtic and Ireland so fignting the same fight over and over again suits me just fine as I'm not so smart so its suits my arguing style!!!
I'm glad that there are folk out there from 'a land beyond the wave' who choose to follow the history af their 'sire-land' and not just on the superficial levels of sport.

**Junior** · 24/11/2003, 6:42 PM

Originally posted by Plastic Paddy
Junior

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

One of the places I also tried was the old Bath CHE, which I believe is now Bath Spa University College. IIRC, they did a correspondence/residential style course, which might suit your needs. Bath was the home to the British Association for Irish Studies, which has now moved to Royal Holloway College, part of the University of London. Their website is at http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/bais/ and will probably have all the answers you need. If not, they'll know exactly who does.

Hope that's of some use.

Cheers PP, ironically I emailed them about 3hrs ago, asking for help in locating a course!! Sounds like the correspondence/residential course would be ideal if they still do it. Have also got on to Liverpool Uni as well, though I think P/T is the best they can offer and that will probably clash with work!!

I'll keep you posted, thanks for the help.

Jnr

**A face** · 05/01/2004, 9:20 PM

[COLOR=firebrick][SIZE=8]"celtic could accept awards from the kkk for humanatarian work,and their "fans" would justify it."[/SIZE][/COLOR]

**RebelBhoy** · 06/01/2004, 2:49 PM

eh.. good one! not really though.

You say "fans". Does that describe the 80,000-100,000 people who went ot seville knowing they probably would'nt get a ticket and drank and sang with opposing fans not once causing trouble?

**Gary** · 06/01/2004, 6:40 PM

Does that describe the 80,000-100,000 people who went ot seville knowing they probably would'nt get a ticket and drank and sang

Kinda stupid spending all that money to go to watch a match in the pub i would have thought.

That said, most (OIrish) Sellthick fans have never been inside a football ground ever to see a live match in their lives and would only miss the replays and the commentary etc.

**liam88** · 06/01/2004, 8:06 PM

errrrr yeah-best fans by both UEFA and FIFA involved with the KKK hmmm mabye not. Irish Celtic fans never being in the stadium that's a laugh, even at Fulham in a pre-season friendly I met hundreds-the whole place was Irish!

"Kinda stupid spending all that money to go to watch a match in the pub i would have thought"

No no no-that's called Loy-al-ty , it means you respect your club and will go all that way to represent it even if you havent got a ticket. Try it- Loy-al-ty