Fighting with sticks goes back to the earliest origins of mankind when man with a combination of large brain, dextrous hands and strong sense of survival augmented his relatively weak body by ...

The shillelagh was a powerful symbol of Irish fighting culture ... More typically, blackthorn sticks (the hardest Irish wood) were smeared with butter and cured in chimneys over time.

(The sticks made of Blackthorn are so heavy there was no ... it is more than likely outfitted with a wristband. Shillelagh fighting is believed to have evolved over thousands of years in Ireland ...

Now, travellers can enter the dynamic world of Irish stick fighting ... greatly benefited traditional shillelagh craftsmen, who handcraft the weapons from blackthorn wood (Credit: Francis ...

While fighting ... 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 ...

Made from wild-growing blackthorn ... which was adapted to perform as a fighting weapon but would pass for a walking stick as a disguise. The traditional Shillelagh walking sticks are also ...

Trish Smith and John Borter are on a mission to train the next generation of Irish stick fighters. The cracking bang of a shillelagh ... Irish stick fighting, what is that?” ...

After that, shillelaghs–far from disappearing along with the oak–simply began to be made from the wood of the Irish blackthorn ... or as a stick to herd cattle. Today the shillelagh is ...

Using traditional blackthorn walking sticks as weapons, the sport combines the principles of fist-fighting and the motions ... Liam Kealy from the Olde Shillelagh Stick Makers in County Wicklow ...