A WALKING stick owned by Northern Ireland's first prime minister, James Craig, is expected to be sold for up to £5,000 when it goes up for auction in Belfast next week.

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

The estimate is £500-£700. The shillelagh (walking stick), Lot 574, is described as “shaped from oak or blackthorn, with carved relief decoration ‘From the green isle’ a harp, ‘Begorra ...

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 ...

Using traditional blackthorn walking sticks as weapons, the sport combines the principles of fist-fighting and the motions of a stick. Glen Doyle is a Canadian master of Irish stick-fighting after ...

A BLACKTHORN walking stick once owned by James Craig has sold for £10,000 at an auction in Belfast. The sale at a Belfast auction house on Tuesday went for a fifth of the total paid for a stick ...

So, [the Irish people] really had to use what they had to work with, which was walking sticks, ” Smith said. Stick fighting took off during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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 ...

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.

Offerings include fine Irish jewelry, Belleek China, linen and apparel imported directly from "the Old Country." For many years, Reilly and his wife took the Irish Specialty Shoppe on the road.