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 ...

You don’t have to be Irish to know how to make a shillelagh (pronounced shih-LAY-lee or shih-LAY-lah). In fact, the sturdy, gnarled hardwood wallopers (which the Celts have carried–as canes or ...

A shillelagh is a wooden walking stick and club, or cudgel made from a thick, knotty stick with a large knob on top of Blackthorn wood (sloe) or Oak. Like Irish bacon, the piece is smeared with ...

The word Shillelagh which has its origins from the once majestic ancient oak forest of Shillelagh in County Wicklow has now become synonymous with a certain type of tacky tourist artifact.

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

Similar strikes killed many men in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Back then, this long wooden stick with a bulbous head, called a shillelagh, was key to bataireacht, or Irish stick fighting.And this ...

SEATTLE - A 150-year-old shillelagh that symbolizes Seattle's Irish heritage has vanished and its owners want it back for a benefit this weekend. The traditional walking stick is believed to be ...

Today, Blackthorn is made up of McMullan, 73, of Huntington Woods and originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, who sings lead vocals and plays guitar, mandolin, cittern, bodhran and bones.