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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.