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| Full name | Belfast Celtic Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Celts; The Grand Old Team | |
| Founded | 1891 | |
| Dissolved | 1960 | |
| Ground | Celtic Park, Belfast | |
| League | Irish League | |
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Belfast Celtic Football Club was an Irish football club. Founded in 1891 in Belfast,[1] it was one of the most successful teams in Ireland until it withdrew permanently from the Irish League in 1949. The club left the league for political reasons, as the team and its supporters were largely Catholic and Irish nationalist.[2][3] Belfast Celtic was one of four clubs that attracted the biggest crowds in the Irish League, the other three being Linfield, Distillery and Glentoran.[3] Belfast Celtic played its last match in 1960.
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- ^ McCann, Eamonn (20 December 1998). "The day a team died". Sunday Tribune. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ a b Conn, David (23 February 2011). "Memories of Belfast Celtic reawakened as IFA tries to soothe old wounds". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2017.