Celtic players will wear a special shirt at their next home fixture to commemorate the Irish famine.

The first team squad will play St Mirren at Parkhead on Saturday, May 20 wearing a Celtic Cross on their shirts to recognise the victims of The Great Hunger in Ireland.

Also known as An Gorta Mór, the famine devastated Irish communities in the 1840s and changed the country's demographic and cultural landscape forever.

Around one million people died from starvation while many more left the country and settled in Scotland.

With its Irish roots, Celtic Football Club is marking National Famine Commemoration Day with the tribute, and some shirts will be auctioned after the game with all proceeds going to the work of the Celtic FC Foundation. 

An official commemoration will take place on Sunday, May, 21 in County Donegal, where the Irish President will lead a wreath-laying ceremony at the former Milford workhouse and graveyard.

Minister for tourism, culture, arts, Gaeltacht, sport and media, Catherine Martin, said the event would give the people of Donegal an opportunity to honour the suffering and loss. 

She said: "The choice of Donegal as host for the 2023 National Famine Commemoration is particularly welcome given the deferral of the hosting of the 2020 event in Donegal due to the pandemic.

“It is appropriate that the event will take place on the old site of the Milford workhouse, given the adversity endured by the people of Donegal in the face of poverty, hunger and emigration throughout the Great Famine and the 19th century."