The Shillelagh - An Irish Fighting stick, walking stick, and club

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An overview of the weapon/club known as the Shillelagh
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Gangs of New York 2002
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@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

For pronunciation I did my best. Any issues meet me for a Shillelagh duel outside the King's Arms.

@kyledunn6853 Год назад

Thanks Johnny. 🍻 Sleinté.

@warpartyattheoutpost4987 Год назад

Lemme have *(hic)* a few more drinks first...

@kyledunn6853 Год назад

Oh my God. Somebody's hard on the liquor.

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

Get in the Queue...

@Stormonu Год назад

Better than I did when I first encountered this weapon in D&D - used to call it a shill - lee - log, 'til one of my players taught me better.

@frankt5682 Год назад

"You can accomplish more with kind words and a Shillelagh, than with kind words alone."

@k-dogg9086 Год назад

"Speak Softly but carry a Big stick."

@IrismonoYT Год назад

@joe blogs it's paraphrasing a quote frequently attributed to Al Capone.

@jrooksable Год назад

Well DUH🤣

@jackmehoffe9372 Год назад

Fucking hell you're so funny

@IrismonoYT Год назад

@Dennis Sullivan Referencing a now deleted comment. The phrase in question is "You can accomplish more with kind words and a gun, than with kind words alone.", which is attributed to Al Capone.

@michelveilleux2075 Год назад

As my great grandfather had once said. "A cane, a club, and three minutes of pure whoop ass to convince the bastard they're in the wrong."

@schrisdellopoulos9244 Год назад

Sure he did.

@BennyLlama39 Год назад

How do you use the remaining 2 minutes and 50 seconds? A variation of kneecapping, a broken jaw, and a hit to the midsection (not necessarily in that order) don't take very long. 😈

@CranialExtractor Год назад

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever heard.

@justleeguy9195 Год назад

@@BennyLlama39 Mostly taunting them while they're down.

@andrewmize823 Год назад

My maternal great-grandfather was Irish. During the great depression, nobody liked to throw stuff away--even if it was broken. He took a baseball bat that had the handle broken off and carved it down to use as a small cudgel, which he referred to as his shillelagh. It's not a shillelagh in the traditional sense, but I think he called it that as a matter of function rather than form. Anyway, it's going on a hundred years old and it's still a rock-solid piece of hickory as well as a piece of family history.

@justinrill2483 Год назад

nice story, thx for sharing

@padraigmaclochlainn8866 Год назад

The Irish-Americans shillelagh

@JamusChristus Год назад

As far as I'm concerned, that's a shillelagh.

@chonconnor6144 Год назад

Your grandfather was right.

@phoenixjim0527 Год назад

[I deleted a silly comment. Forgot to do so sooner.]

@dalej1 Год назад

In Pan Tadeusz, Poland's national epic, there is a description of an ancient Lithuanian method of making war clubs. One finds a young oak, makes small, shallow cuts in it's bark, and put bits of sharp flint in it. Over the years, the tree grows over the fling and holds it firmly in place. Some years later you cut the oak out and have a perfect war club material. It is said in the ancient times it used to be the main weapon of Lithuanian infantry. The giant club used by the character from Pan Tadeusz was called "sprinkler" (holy water tool) by its owner, nicked "The Baptist". :)

@jackiekittridge-steele385 Год назад

Very interesting- thanks! Those must have been brutal battles...

@algirdassalomskas9050 Год назад

thank you for sharing this very interesting knowledge, I had no idea of this even as a Lithuanian taking an interest in history

@philrobbie1670 Год назад

in Leon Uris' 'Poland' this method is used by a main character.

@WojciechP915 Год назад

That is wild

@theprodigalson4003 Год назад

That’s so fricking cool

@MrLukeVideos Год назад

I'm Irish and never really knew anything about these sticks even though i grew up seeing them about. Funnily enough when you started showing pictures a memory popped up in my head of an old stick my mum keeps. I rummage around the house looking for it, low and behold we actually have an old ass Shillelagh stick. Talk about fulfilling your own stereotypes.

@LeatherCladVegan Год назад

Um, I'm pretty sure that 'Mum's old ass shillelagh' has a completely different purpose.

@tobe1207 Год назад

You think it's just a stereotype?

@MrLukeVideos Год назад

@@tobe1207 I mean that's kinda my point. I watched a video about a hugely stereotypical Irish item only to look in my own home and find one.

@dazdeluxe6672 Год назад

Mr Luke, You must Be American, surely?

@billdershem6714 10 месяцев назад

@@LeatherCladVeganTHAT.. made me LAUGH!! Very nice!!

@brokencupoftea705 Год назад

I am Irish, lived in Ireland all my life. Didn't know it had a name. To us it was always "grandads walking stick" that he keeps beside the couch.

@doubleclick4132 Год назад

its always outsiders and pretenders who romanticize common object from other cultures

@Krawn_ Год назад

@@doubleclick4132 nation (n.) c. 1300, nacioun, "a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language," from Old French nacion "birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland" (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) "birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe," literally "that which has been born," from natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci), from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups.

@doubleclick4132 Год назад

@@Krawn_ deserter [ dih-zur-ter ] (n.) 1.) a soldier or draftee who leaves or runs away from service or duty with the intention of never returning: Deserters from the rebel army tell of low morale among its remaining fighters. 2.) a person who fails to uphold a cause or who abandons someone else, especially in violation of a promise or obligation: Some of those remaining in the home country view emigrants living abroad as deserters from their mother culture.

@irish-thinker4429 Год назад

I'm from offaly, it's always been called a shalleigh in my house

@lawrencejones5640 Год назад

I'm Australian and that's exactly my story too

@clarencewalker3925 Год назад

An old shipmate said, "He may be bigger, faster or stronger but there's nothing like a piece of wood." Wise words. He was one hell of a stick fighter.

@Donor_Carcy Год назад

Keep the Irish history coming, I love seeing the representation!

@Connorparker155 Год назад

Yeooooooooo

@quartzking3997 Год назад

Your most notable weapon is literally a fucking stick. What’s the difference between Irish people and cavemen?

@Leightr Год назад

In the US, alls I ever learned about that club was from some folk song that advised cutting a "stout blackthorn" (apparently to "banish ghosts and goblins") before starting a journey and that if in London and rude Londoners push my patience past a certain point I should "my shillelagh let fly" provided a few young men from "Galway" are in the vicinity to assist. I think I'll need a guidebook if I ever visit the UK, the customs seem a bit complicated.

@colemanstarr5404 Год назад

If you do it right you'll quickly clear the way ...

@lazlow9640 Год назад

No lad, it was the Boys of Liverpool you were fighting.

@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Год назад

@@lazlow9640 They called him such a fool he could no longer stand it. His blood began to boil, he was losing his temper. Then they began abusing poor old Erin’s Isle

@TheMrhockey Год назад

Before my great grandfather passed away he gave my dad what I thought was a weird walking stick. It was a shillelagh 🤯

@robchilders Год назад

I've got a blackthorn walking stick. It's heft gives me a comfort on walks. Thanks for covering it.

@lisafish1449 Год назад

I also have a blackthorn stick. Mine has the former owner's initials on a silver cap. It is a prize possession and I enjoy walking with it.

@oakmaiden2133 8 месяцев назад

As a ten year old girl on a camping trip, I found an oak sapling that was bent at the base. Perfect hand hold. I cut it down, trimmed and skinned it. I turned 60 last month and that stick of mine is currently on my back porch. I’m also a wee bit Irish, so I guess it came naturally!😊😅

@rwcowell Год назад

The shillelagh isn't a concept that is nothing new. Man has been beating and killing their fellow man with clubs, shillelaghs, or bataans for over dozens of millennia. However many of those Irish made blackthorn shillelaghs are beautiful works of art. I would like to get an authentically made blackthorn shillelagh walking stick from Ireland someday.

@VikingTeddy Год назад

Looks a lot lika a knobkerrie, it's a good shape so convergent evolution is to be expected.

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

Recommend County Clare especially Bunratty castle and then a few pints at Durty Nellys afterwards..

@realhorrorshow8547 Год назад

My blackthorn knobstick is from the Derbyshire Peak District.

@mr.bullionnaire9748 Год назад

Also check out Francis Mccaffrey he's got a pretty good selection of authentic shillelaghs made by himself.

@casperbosman1896 Год назад

Yeah i got my knobkerrie right next to my sjambok

@SSD_Penumbra Год назад

Also, it may have its roots (no pun intended) in Irish mythology. Blackthorn was believed to have mystical properties and would be deadly to creatures, living or otherwise. In an Irish myth about a vampire-like man named Abhertach, a local boy uses a sword made from blackthorn to kill Abhertach. Storytellers in Ireland often tell how Fae creatures like changelings can be killed with blackthorn too.

@Patrick.Weightman Год назад

Monk made me realize how damn effective clubs are in combat. It's much easier to gravely cripple an enemy than slash through armor

@just-dl Год назад

In warfare there’s an advantage to crippling an opponent. The dead will be left until after the battle. The wounded may require 1-2 people to assist him off the field. So every crippled enemy is 2-3 enemies removed from action. In ugly but useful reality in combat.

@Patrick.Weightman Год назад

@@just-dl Absolutely true. Just look at mines in WWII or booby traps in Vietnam (that were used offensively). Nearly their entire purpose was to over-encumber platoons with wounded

@just-dl Год назад

@@Patrick.Weightman makes me a bit sad to be part of a species that's so good at finding new ways to hurt each other.....

@secretsix43 Год назад

@@just-dl Good practice in case we run into something that threatens all of us.

@just-dl Год назад

@@secretsix43 there’s a sci-Fi short story from years ago from Larry Niven. In the future, humans quit fighting each other and lived a relatively peaceful life which the aliens mistakes for a sign of weakness because they did not “practice war.” The author s editorial was “the reason humans did not practice war and violence is because they were already very, very good at it. Rings true….

@showtale8325 Год назад

I collect Interesting " sticks " I find on my hikes in the woods. I find an appropriate stick on every journey, usually the stick finds me. I simply keep them as souvenirs of my adventures. They must be ergonomic ,sturdy and have some sort of intrinsic quality. Normally a chosen stick will serve much purpose in my exploration. I never thought of enhancing them as described. An idea I suppose

@albertperrin694 9 месяцев назад

I was given one by an Irish family. The husband made them. Green strong wood, a piece of the Blarney Stone sounded like Blarney to me, with 4 leaf clovers lacquered in. There is a lovely rich brown lacquer and many clear varnish layers. The head is a serious weapon, but just a great walking stick to me. I have replaced the cane tip many times. At a distance while walking on a path in the forest a woman far away freaked out thinking it was a rifle over my shoulders.

@cameronmcleod7740 Год назад

My father, a Scottish immigrant not Irish mind you, made his own rootball club from a tree at our house. Now I have it. But his preferred club of choice was an old axe handle cut off below axe head. I never snuck out in HS for free of being mistaken for an intruder and getting brained.

@benitoharrycollmann132 Год назад

Man your content is always informative and exactly as advertised. I'd love to see you do a video on the infamous Ghurka kukri. I know you'd do it much justice

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

that's definitely on my list!

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Mrs C,a da found his very handy, as well as his sword bayonet ( 1918 issue)

@sawyere2496 Год назад

I’d say it’s more famous than infamous.

@geoffreybennett8912 Год назад

The reason they are so notorious is that when they draw it from the scabbard, they have to draw blood from an enemy, and if they don't, they have to draw blood from themselves. Many Australians in the jungle of Asia in WW2 saw this and thought it a little strange until it was explained to them that it is a part of their very being and that they have a duty to protect their own, so they don't draw their weapon unless they are going to use it for its intended purpose, to kill. Many of the Gurkha have scars on their legs and arms and chest from their blades because they didn't draw blood from an enemy so they had to draw their own. And, of course, the fact that they are so feared is a testament to their courage and skill with their blades.

@lftr_react 2 месяца назад

Just got back from Ireland. It was not on our itinerary, but my gf called the shop owner and he agreed to open the shop for us. 2hr drive straight off the plane down tight country roads to Shillelagh... worth it. Now a piece of Ireland is home with me. Thank you to Liam at Olde Shillelagh for accommodating us!

@BokorugroRR Год назад

Maybe it was mentioned before, a similar weapon is the Hungarian “fokos” a kind of shepard’s axe. A hybrid of a small axe, walking stick and general survival tool.

@gooraway1 Год назад

I think we deserved a translation of that lovely Irishman's discussion on the weapon.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Here is his full video. Brilliant to listen to but takes a few goes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-litKL7EQgTI.html

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Accents...discuss...

@geezerhull Год назад

I was 77 with a bad hip and 8 heart attacks and was working in a rather dicey part of town. I use one of those shillelaghs as a walking stick, I had a meth head decide to take me on in a stairwell. I shifted my grip on it and asked him "really?" He decided maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all. also, it has saved me from many a fall. Thank you Ireland from a yank.

@padraigpearse1551 Год назад

Yess loved this unexpected video! We actually have my great grandfathers shillelagh hanging above our fireplace that was passed down through the family. It's hit many people in its time from policemen in the Land War to british soldiers in the Troubles

@IRAwhiskey Год назад

Hopefully she has a few knotches on her too 😉😂

@crankfastle8146 Год назад

Sure thing Yank 🤣🤣

@padraigpearse1551 Год назад

@@crankfastle8146 literally born, raised and still live in Derry my guy

@Sparkykelly1 8 месяцев назад

From The Big Smoke myself. Thanks for sharing your story 👍☘️

@D.M.S. Год назад

And I learned something new. I really love that you bring new topics into the mix

@iowa_lot_to_travel9471 Год назад

Yes. An an absolute must have for the cargo pockets. Thanks Johnny. 🔥🔥💪💪👍👍

@SlickCookie Год назад

The ol reliable big stick. Can’t get wrong with it

@BlackRifleBear Год назад

Very good pronunciation! My grandfather is Irish and he has one of these (an original) hanging on his office wall since I was a kid. His also has stones inside the club end.

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

Johnny speaks better English than a lot round here ( Merseyside) ..as regards Gaelic...10 on 10..

@user-fg9ch9jp7m Год назад

Stones, that Atk+10 at least.

@fuferito Год назад

I was first introduced to the Shillelagh more than thirty years ago, while looking at free spells in the Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook.

@warpartyattheoutpost4987 Год назад

An old friend gifted me a lead filled shillelagh from Ireland. I keep it by the bed as a redundancy in case the lead filled .45 under my pillow jams.

@laniemon Год назад

Thank you for introducing a weapon that some people really don't know about

@ddsmitty1 Год назад

i adorned my Shillelagh with little dangly bits of gold and gems. they were my lucky charms.

@Kruppt808 Год назад

As a person who loves movies and shows introducing me to new weapons and other misc stuff. This is a perfect channel for me.

@fletchkeilman2205 8 месяцев назад

Love this video....I revisit this specific one every so often. This channel is the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you for that

@manamorph Год назад

Incredible. I stumbled upon your channel today and am genuinely gobsmacked by the quality of your videos. Thank you!

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Thanks Ty I appreciate that

@Babidi111 Год назад

- I always wanted one of those authentic ones. They are just such lowtech pieces of art.

@R7Rolan1 Год назад

The shillelagh was introduced to me not in a movie, but by WWE. I remember the one called 'Little Bastard' (later to be known as Hornswoggle) use to assist Finlay in his matches (or was it Finlay? I don't remember).

@TheMitchellExpress Год назад

I think he used to hand it to Finlay

@mastawayne9326 Месяц назад

Same here.

@Deatheater4444 Год назад

Bonk was man's first weapon, and Bonk is with us always.

@zali13 Год назад

Good stuff, sir. I hadn't made the connection between the shillelagh and the cudgel in Gangs of New York! Thank you for enlightening me!

@crazypiratesquirrel3038 Год назад

I’ve known the word shillelagh from a toddler. I grew up in Ohio with my great-grandfathers’ brothers (I believe) shillelagh leaning in the corner of the family tv room. It looks almost exactly like the one far right in the photo of multiple shillelaghs (1:09) with the only difference is mine has thorns on the shaft. It’s a beautiful piece!

@alasdairmackintosh 10 месяцев назад

Scotland had used the Shillelagh as well since the disarming act came into place banning the highland dirk and other traditional weapons. In Scotland they were referred to as Kebbie sticks. Not much difference in the way that they were crafted either. I like that it's a personalized weapon, and there aren't a lot of rules surrounding what constitutes as a shillelagh. I live in Canada and make war clubs, canes, and walking sticks for a hobby. I've used green ash to make a few shillelaghs and currently I'm making a short fighting stick with a crook/mallet shaped striking end out of a very nice and dense piece of cherry

@MyBlueZed Год назад

I saw the title Irish Clubs and thought pubs? 🤣🍺 This is a wonderful channel and I look forward to seeing the alerts for new posts. ❤️🇦🇺

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Thanks for the kind words

@RX552VBK Год назад

My father's boss had one over his fire place. When I was 11, we went to his house in the North Bronx (NYC) on a Saturday. He had one that was like "honey" colored or something like that (this was 1977 after all---loooong time ago), I always thought it was a dinosaur bone. lol

@HandyMan657 Год назад

I still have grandpas, the old fella left me a lot of nifty stuff.

@Taomantom Год назад

I acquired a shillelagh when I was visiting Ireland 20 plus years ago. The copper tip worried people so much I covered it in tool rubberizing material.

@stephenkeefer3436 Год назад

Good one Johnny. Well structured and entertaining.

@bongodrumzz Год назад

I have a couple of these from an irish uncle when he passed away, and a few African ones (made from Ebony) from my grandad, and they are beautiful. In the right hands also deadly. Cheers for this video Johnny, you picked another great topic and did it well!

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

An ebony one would be amazing

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Nigeria and Ireland do share a few things, like drums that talk...Phil Collins can testify to that..Sina the celebrated young German percussionist, is a dab hand on the Bodrhan ( I have a few...) ...

@robbie6625 Год назад

Jeez, an ebony one would be incredibly valuable.

@20chocsaday Год назад

Is that the type of Ebony that grows fast and has white flecks running through it? A man pointed out six trees growing together and said they were not worth anything because of that.

@bongodrumzz Год назад

@@eamonnclabby7067 and that old favourite, Nigerian lager?? lol

@Saintbow Год назад

We used to call our wooden hockey sticks a shillelagh. My brother and I would always duel on this knocked down massive pine tree. It would help with your balance and the goal of the duel was to knock the other person off. Since there was only advancing and retreating, it forced you to work on your hand eye coordination too.

@druid139 Год назад

Aw camán!

@cathalodiubhain5739 Год назад

@@druid139 hahah

@ronfroehlich4697 Год назад

I still use a wooden hockey stick (Sherwood 5030) and will henceforth honor my Irish ancestors by referring to it as a shillelagh.

@oscarmoloneydaly8205 Год назад

Amazing one johnny, thank you for repping 80% of my military history 🙏

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Thanks for the kind words man

@WUZLE Год назад

There was one of these in an antique store I visited in Duncannon, Pennsylvania. I would have bought it had it not been so expensive. And it was HEAVY. Heavier than most maces in my experience. The head was at least four inches in diameter.

@Rebellescum 5 месяцев назад

the head might be filled with lead

@Amaterasu2511 Год назад

The algorithm scares me. I've never searched scenes from this movie yet I talked to my roommate about it last nite. Suddenly videos about it are everywhere.

@dirtpoorchris Год назад

I love the "cheap shots" from irish stick fighting. Using the extra club weight to do swinging looping attack that hit people in the top or back of the head.

@stelleratorsuprise8185 6 месяцев назад

I had an authentic older walking stick (German not Irish) the knob on the end was filled with lead (or similar) the stick was made of little leather disks with an iron/steel core, the tip (the part touching the ground) was massive iron/steel conical and relative pointy. These harmless looking walking sticks where often used as weapons of self-defense.

@cobyporschifer221 Год назад

What a AWESOME video ! Thanks for posting you rock Bruther !☘

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Thanks for the kind words man

@Supernaught00 Год назад

Awesome video, thank you for taking the time.

@Mr66Yellow Год назад

I learned something new today. Thx

@evilmiyoho6742 Год назад

That actor is Colm from The Banshees of Inisherin, a recent irish film nominated to the Oscars, I'm gonna watch this one now. I'm a Mads Mikkelsen fnatic, Valhalla rising was one of his first movies there in Denmark, what a great ambientation.

@Quonzer Год назад

It feels it's like a combination between a club, a staff, and a mace.

@thinnerdounut Год назад

Some people remember the Shillelagh from movies or documentaries, but for me I remember it from a character named Haggis McHaggis on the Ren and Stimpy show.

@oopsydaizi3s824 Год назад

Woah that was a flashback

@0tteru Год назад

I didn't know these were a specific thing, my grandparents were Irish and my dad had one of these

@michaelray4033 Год назад

Now that line from "Rocky Road to Dublin" makes sense.

@murphykenji Год назад

We have a shillelagh in our family, my aunt has it now but when I was growing up my father kept it in his study.

@redpillers2361 Год назад

In Spain we got the same tipe of clubs, tipical Celti Iberian weapon easy to made. We use Acebuche (Wild olive branches) Very especial Wood to made clubs and baton.

@LazyLifeIFreak Год назад

Aye its a beautiful weapon no doubt about it but the queen still holds the field, her name be the spear and by her side be the king, the shield.

@kyledunn6853 Год назад

"Ten per notch? Per new notch. Then I'm your man." "He killed 44 men. And laid low a couple hundred more."

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

lol I immediately thought of you when adding that scene.

@kyledunn6853 Год назад

Good call.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Lol he just made the reference in a previous video comment

@kyledunn6853 Год назад

I would've gone with Daniel Day-Lewis' line before he brained Monk outside the barber shop. But I don't think anyone would want to hear offensive language about the Irish.

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@kyledunn6853 don,t worry ,Geraldis Cambrensius ,did for us when the Normans came to Ireland...that said they ended up being more Irish than the Irish...beyond the pale...

@evansanchez5894 Год назад

The katana would be a great video, tons of material for that one

@JimmySteller 3 месяца назад

I learned what a shillelagh was purely because of Monk McGinn. One of the most fascinating side characters of any film I've yet seen. I'd have gladly watched a whole series about his life story.

@jamesvaughan8395 Год назад

FINALLY! A video with historical interests, where the focus, and the point, is the history, not a political subversion of history.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Much appreciated words 🙏

@tylerloving7132 Год назад

A customer of mine made one for me. About a four foot long walking stick with spiked studs nailed into it. It’s freaking awesome.

@subsidingjoshua9354 Год назад

Great Video! Love the Lord of the Rings reference. lol

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

Me too...

@robinrobyn1714 Год назад

Whoa!! I have watched "Gangs of New York", several times and I never realized that Bill the Butcher was using MC Guinns own shillelagh against him

@crumpetcommandos779 Год назад

The 45th notch

@urseliusurgel4365 Год назад

There is also the 'ashplant', an Irish stick made of ash, a dense and strong wood. It was more obviously a walking stick, having a bent handle, but could also be seasoned in the chimney and be filled with lead to make it more of a weapon. Famously used by James Joyce to discourage dogs, which he disliked.

@edgaraquino2324 Год назад

Good comment, UU! British tanker officers carry them...originally, the officers used them in the Great War to test the firmness of the ground before allowing their tanks to advance...Irish Guard officers carry the shillelagh, cavalry officers a riding crop...too bad about Joyce, I love dogs....

@williamkuhns2387 Год назад

I saw an antique one in th museum at Mission San Luis Obispo, in California. It had the main stem walking stick with rounded knob but it had originally when growing had been "coppiced" so the blackthorn tree grew 4 or 5 very thin stems sprouting from knob of shilleilie stick. The green thin sticks were braided down the length of shaft and dried to hold twists when ready to harvest. The thin braided sticks had long sharp thorns all along their length. In the hands of an expert this would not be something to mess with!

@kloss213 Год назад

Got 1 from my great uncle it's got a hard ball on top and a brass endpoint so can be used as a club on both ends. It's a bit short to use as a walking stick for my tall frame but fit him very well.

@VikingTeddy Год назад

I'd be interested in seeing ww1 trench fighting weapons. Everything from a hefty stick or spade to a shotgun.

@matthaft2048 Год назад

InRangeTv did a really good video on them. But I second your notion lol

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@matthaft2048 thirded....

@KevinSmith-yh6tl Год назад

I AGREE 👍

@nicemotivation7551 Год назад

That’s great thanks thanks for sharing this amazing video

@AriThecraftydragon Год назад

Good video. Thanks for sharing the information.

@911captkrunch Год назад

Just found this channel. Really enjoying content.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

Thanks man! Welcome to the channel

@_-KR-_ Год назад

I have a shilleleigh! handed down from a passed family member. I prize it and sometimes use it when my leg or foot hurts.

@garfieldsmith332 Год назад

And from Shillelagh came the game of Hurling using the Hurley. The object being to hit the opponents as often and as hard as you can.😊😊

@sarmadusmani4792 Год назад

As jason statham puts it about hurling in Blitz: "a cross between hockey and murder!"

@victorwaddell6530 Год назад

I'm American and love our version of football , but Hurling is my favorite sport .

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@victorwaddell6530 indeed, whenever I go back to Ireland ( an adopted son of Birkhenhead...) it is a really big thing with the fierce competition at County level, mind you the shoreline of Ireland goes up two inches when Liverpool, Celtic ,Rangers, Manchester city and United are playing home games

@SImonDeLikaeble Год назад

@@sarmadusmani4792 Great line. It was a good movie as well.

@scoutkbartholomew722 Год назад

I love how cc just gave up trying to caption what the maker was saying

@mattnobrega6621 Год назад

I think it was Roosevelt that said, " speak softly and carry a big stick" 😏👍

@JamesDOConnor1916 Год назад

Thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪 😀

@parttimetourist Год назад

It is made from Black Thorn (which is very hard) so is the Black Thorn walking stick and the Peterson Briar pipe All of them were in our house when I was growing up in Ireland

@pandaberserk3390 Год назад

i just subbed and had no idea you did one on the gunstock warclub

@inregionecaecorum Год назад

Didn't know the name came from willow which is my favourite wood for making walking sticks these days, but back in the day I did used to make shillelaghs from blackthorn.

@thomasmcdaniel765 Год назад

Im an Irish American and never knew the history of the shillelagh Thanks for the vid. Sorry for the spelling.

@godangelis Год назад

My dad had a few of these. All of them were pretty narrow but had the club like head and the bottoms of the torns were left on. I don't know if it is a normal characteristic but they are pretty flexible too

@Greywolf1066 Год назад

Good stuff man. I walk with one I made myself out of 30 year seasoned oak, mainly to protect myself and my dog from the unleashed.

@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Год назад

They will never go out of style and always be practical

@eamonnclabby7067 Год назад

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq absolutely...

@Dave00theking Год назад

Fantastic, now I want one.

@rachdarastrix5251 Год назад

Video: **Tries to show me a clear shot of the club** Popup: "Aww how sweet, you came all this way just for a clear look at me."

@JohnDoesItAll Год назад

My grandfather kept his on the wall; two broken pieces forming an X with withered flowers. The story behind it was that a man was shouting at his dog and kicked her while crossing a small bridge exiting the park. I guess my grandfather was merciful and only beat him with the mid section rather than ball end until it broke in half.

@tommytitmouse 6 месяцев назад

Blackthorn weighs a hellova weight . I used to make walking sticks and tried cutting a few Blackthorn sticks to try a few as "walking sticks". However when I made them , not many people wanted to buy one because of the sheer weight you have to carry around as opposed to say a Hazel shank now if you consider a shillelagh with a pretty big rootball (knob) on the end of it , you can see that weight increase the stick even more this is why I think many you see are short and under two feet long .