It is 1984 in Detroit and Richard McMullan, an Irish-born high school teacher who happens to be musically inclined, is approached by the owner of a popular bar to gather a few bandmates and perform ...

“Shillelagh” is an old Irish word for a stout, short, oak cudgel or club. Shillelagh also happens to be the name of a famous oak forest that once stood in County Wicklow, Ireland. Generally, a cudgel ...

The jeweled shillelagh has to be one of the most unusual college football trophies. Traditionally it is passed between the annual winner of the USC versus Notre Dame game. After Saturday night’s game ...

A shillelagh - a traditional Irish stick used as a weapon to settle disagreements in a "gentlemanly manner" - is not permitted as a carry-on item, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ...

I have been contemplating a stout blackthorn not “to banish ghosts and goblins” necessarily, but to ease a path to more confident mobility — the stick or cane (as Americans call it) being an aid to ...

On July 23 a 19th-century Irish shillelagh or faction fighting stick went under the hammer at Fonsie Mealy's Chatsworth Summer Sale. The stick was 105cm long and mounted with an engraved plaque ...