Shaughnessy, Joseph

In 1887, Davitt’s visits to Scotland attracted great headlines including the Glasgow Observer’s ‘Davitt in Highlands – the Tribune of the Celtic Race’. Shaughnessy was an important ‘fixer’ for the new club, a Rutherglen councillor who knew his way around the corridors of local power to help get the team established.

He was also involved in the Rutherglen St Vincent de Paul Conference and dealt with any legal issues which concerned the club. He was the main legal advisor to the nascent trade unions in Scotland and associate of John O'Hara, another Founding Father who was a trade union official.

James Farrell joined the Shaugnessy law firm in the middle of the last century and the Celtic director maintained this link with Celtic's founder up until the 1980s. The law firm is still in business.