Back then, this long wooden stick with a bulbous head, called a shillelagh, was key to bataireacht, or Irish stick fighting. And this Irish martial art, which dates back more than 500 years ...

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 ...

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.

Behind them were droves of Chicago’s Irish cops and aldermen, and even a scattering of priests. They liked it best when Regan swung into The Same Old Shillelagh, brandishing a shellacked stick ...

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 ...

What comes to mind when you think of Irish words? Maybe begorra, an alteration of “by God,” or shillelagh, a blackthorn ...