Na Chéad Fight Clubs - TG4 Faction Fighting in Ireland 

The ancient art of hitting someone on the head with a stick

This was great! Not only did I get my language listening in, but as someone else said, we look towards other cultures for ways of fighting/ martial arts. WE HAVE OUR OWN! Just like the language that was outlawed and had been attempted to be eradicated, so the English tried to eradicate our methods of self defense. The native language and the art of Bataireacht needs a revival in the states!

Bitterness and cruelty is a learned behavior. Learned from whom? 800 years of England.

This was absolutely brilliant documentary ❤️🙏

I have a shillelagh

As a Canadian Ex-soldier. NATO bayonet fighting translates to the Shillelagh quite well! Try your training with one and see what feels natural. You may be surprised! ;P

Really like the story, shame it's never said how the English caused all this , even today they look down on Irish. That where some of our greatest fighters during the civil war. Then went on to help form our police force. God bless

I am a fan of Irish Stick fighting and would like to learn to do this art . I liked learning about a little of the history behind this art. To include the history of the people behind this fine art. Fearsome warriors and good to see something about Stick Arts.

Very interesting documentary

Regards to the old country from Australia

had my first bataireacht cleachta anocht. which led me to this documentary. Never knew we had our own martial art.

Nice bit if blackthorn will always do the trick ☘️🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sure I took many a lump, but twas all in good fun!

Factions arose from theft of the land and thinned the population, consequently those able and willing to fight were lost. Then the food was stolen at gunpoint by half the British Military resulting in the loss of 5 million over 5 years from starvation and emigration. More died in coffin ships. It’s quite a reality to consider.

Beautifully done documentary. Thank you.

Muy bonito el vídeo.. Muchas gracias. Saludos Fraternales.

It's what happens to aggressive males with fuck all else to do in regards to status and opportunity,,,great video ,,,

As Patton would say, they were all fighting the wrong enemy.

Excellent documentary! Thanks!

Brilliant!

The subtitles were hard to read in a lot of it I still enjoyed it greatly

Traveler factions still at it

Im a Gael in England. I found this video extremely interesting. My ancestors came from Ireland. To think they lived like this fascinates me. Iv just purchased today a Blackthorn stick/Shillelagh from Ireland. I going to study stick fighting videos. The Gaels of Ireland need to revive this Gael martial art of stick fighting. I've a feeling you might need these skills again soon. Erin go bragh. 🇮🇪💪

Cummins and Ryan of Holly Cross, Tipperary descendant here. My Great Great Grandmothers family were involved in these fights. There's also a Shillelagh sitting nicely in my office :)

They used to do this in Highland Aberdeenshire till the late 1800s.There is even a poem about it.

i challenge 50 rogue men vs 50 of mine for a fair fight, only hurleys aloud

There is an account of the armies of Connacht going to the African coast to pull down towers that were trapping pollinator' and preventing them coming up on the trade winds to make landfall in Ireland....the purpose of the towers are to polinate and cross polinate selective plants in an experimental garden nursery....only the male plants were then selected and planted out in walled gardens ....the Babylonian monks operating these nurseries had designed a plant that was pure male with no female plants allowed into these gardens beyond the nurseries ...the result was an unatural plant ,sweet smelling but which produced a musk encouraged by all male plants in those gardens which subsequently emitted a noxious gas or nuero toxin which would have controlling effects on anyone whom inhaled too much of it... they used these plants to contain people and full them down by removing the natural Ying Yang properties found in nature and thus contain populations....this saved on costly wall building and employing armies or sentries to guard conquered people's to make them work for them ...it's clear this plant found its way back to Ireland with those early campaigns however the nuero toxin must have effected them too and subsequently the roundtowers were built and the plant was again propogated and found its way into our landscape....this is the origin of blackthorn and whitethorn ...an invasive species of unatural sinister origin which sent people mad during and after it flowers which coincides with these so called faction fights and fair days....despite noxious gas laws ,noxious plant laws and air quality laws ,,,the actual mystery is ,why is it still on our landscape ?....and has mask wearing during this pandemic reduced the effects of the gas on the nuerology of the population as is seen in reduced crime rates.

Awesome history lesson of what I’m sure my fore-bearers took part in! Very interesting people interviewed and teaching. I love the fact virtually all the historians spoke in Gaelic!

The Fighting Irish. Now I see why the Irish got the name.

Jesus man, crazy times haha. When did they start?, must have been as long as the celts have been around i guess.

Thank you

Up the lawlor’s we still love to fight

To many knocks on the head puddled the Irish nation

Kind of reminds me of the purge

When the Romans conquered Gaul, and Spain certain tribes would not submit to Roman rule. These tribes were ferocious fighters. The Romans could conquer them, but at a high cost. So, these tribes were sent to Ireland. In Ireland they developed the perfect society. They lived off the fertile land, raise cattle. Then when over population occurred, they went over the hill and fought the neighboring tribe. The ones who lived went home and raised a family. While the Romans practiced infanticide, this one reason the Irish never became Romans. Which is better going to battle, and dying or infanticide. Under the system of warring tribes, the survival of the fittest continued the race.

So my Irish family history might be steeped in murder and blood.

Fantastic film but the first 5 minutes or so are broken up, is there another remaining version that's in better order?