Rangers Football Club - The Ulster Connection

by Billy Kennedy

Glasgow Rangers Football Club is a Scottish sporting institution with a global reputation for its success at both domestic and European levels, dating from the club's inception back in 1872. Rangers is a proud family club deeply ingrained in Scottish and British culture. It is also a club with close and abiding bonds that reach out across the North Channel to Northern Ireland. 'Rangers Football Club - the Ulster Connection', the title of this book, has a mighty resonance that has been perpetuated by players from this diaspora who enjoyed distinguished careers at Ibrox Park and enhanced the international standing of the famous Glasgow club. This book is a detailed miscellany on a Scots-Irish link that has provided a significant chapter in the history of Rangers Football Club. Three Ulstermen have captained Rangers; nine have been elevated to the club's 'Hall of Fame' and many other players from across the Channel have contributed much to the good and welfare of an iconic name in British football, through the winning of many trophies .. Today, Rangers is a club with tens of thousands of supporters in Northern Ireland, many of whom make regular treks to Glasgow for the games at Ibrox Park. Their loud and familiar cry in the Ibrox stadium is 'Follow, Follow, We Will Follow Rangers'. This book is a testimony and fitting tribute to momentous and highly memorable achievements past and present.

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Published April 1, 2019

About the author

Billy Kennedy is assistant editor of the Ulster/Belfast News Letter, Northern Ireland's leading morning newspaper and the oldest English language newspaper, having been founded in 1737. Although born in Belfast in 1943, he has spent almost his entire life living in Co. Armagh. He comes of Scots-Irish Presbyterian roots and has a deep fascination for his forebears of that tradition who moved to America in such large numbers during the 18th century.

He is an authority on American country music and culture and has interviewed for the News Letter Nashville personalities such as Garth Brooks, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Ricky Skaggs, and Reba McEntire.

He has edited and compiled books on cultural traditions in Ireland, including two on the history of Orangeism in Ireland. -- paraphrased from The Scots-Irish in the Hills of Tennessee

Reviews

[Graeme Hanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Magazine/programme style, rather than normal book format.

Decent worthwhile compilation of info and stats but nothing new unearthed as far as I'm aware.

Omission of Shane Ferguson, a bad miss.

Inclusion of Celtic players unnecessary.