the traditional club was used primarily as a walking staff, or as a stick to herd cattle. Today the shillelagh is a symbolic souvenir of the Irish spirit, and–according to New York City’s ...

Since oak was now scarce, the Irish turned to creating walking sticks and shillelaghs from the wood of a blackthorn hedge. Consequently, the true shillelagh had now become a part of the memorable ...

The Shillelagh (Irish: Síol Éalaigh, meaning "descendants of Éalach") is also known as bata in Gaelic or “fighting stick.” A shillelagh is a wooden walking stick and club, or cudgel made ...

Since today is our St. Patrick's Day celebration it is fitting to mention the Irish ... Shillelagh, though an item of fashion, meant more than that to the Irishman of old. Those gnarly walking ...

but what about a shillelagh? Transportation Security Administration officers recovered one – an Irish walking stick and cudgel or club – at Boise Airport in Idaho last month, which the ...

That is unless you’re planning on employing a shillelagh — a wooden Irish walking stick that can double as a handy club or cudgel — inside the cabin of an aircraft to make your point.

Trish Smith and John Borter are on a mission to train the next generation of Irish stick fighters. The cracking bang of a shillelagh—a walking stick with a knob at the end—is a foreign sound ...