Melbourne Celtic Club

The Celtic Club logo includes the shamrock and harp of Ireland together with the Southern Cross star constellation representing Australia.

This makes the club the second-oldest (and longest surviving) Irish organisation in Australia, after the Sydney-based Hibernian Society (founded 1880).

Both record the key events in the club's history, and the role it played in helping Irish migrants to become accepted into mainstream Australian culture.

Histories of the Irish element in Victoria (and Australia more generally) make frequent reference to the importance of the club in maintaining a sense of 'Irishness' in Melbourne, as well as in helping to foster a new identity.

President: Patrick McGorry Vice-President: Ronan McDonald Treasurer: Fergal Coleman Secretary: Michael Cooney Committee Members: Rosemary Sheehan, Nial Finegan (Past President), Lynda Meredith, Aoife Kealy, and James Dunne A key aim of the Celtic Club is to support, present and celebrate Irish culture and traditions across the broad spectrum of all Gaelic groups and to recognise and celebrate the great and continuing Australian Irish contribution to the heritage and culture of our country since early settlement.

Famous members of the Celtic Club include Victorian Premier Charles Gavan Duffy; Labor leader Arthur Augustus Calwell; Justice Redmond Barry former North Melbourne Football Club chairman and media personality Ron Casey and Paddy Donnelly, CFMEU organiser and hero of the WestGate Bridge disaster.