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Shillelagh, the Glossary

A shillelagh (sail éille or saill éalaigh, "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top.^[1]

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Clubs (weapon)
Primitive weapons
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Acacia sensu lato

Acacia s.l. (pronounced or), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae.

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Alpenstock

An alpenstock (Alpen- "alpine" + Stock "stick, staff") is a long wooden pole with an iron spike tip, used by shepherds for travel on snowfields and glaciers in the Alps since the Middle Ages.

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Anna Maria Hall

Anna Maria Hall (6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist who often published as "Mrs.

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Arnis

Arnis, also known as kali or eskrima/escrima, is the national martial art of the Philippines.

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"Arthur McBride" (also called "The Recruiting Sergeant" or "Arthur McBride and the Sergeant") is a folk song (Roud 2355) probably of Irish origin, also found in England, Scotland, Australia, and North America.

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Barony (Ireland)

In Ireland, a barony (barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided.

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Basket-hilted sword

The basket-hilted sword is a sword type of the early modern era characterised by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.

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Boston Celtics

The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.

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Brining

In food processing, brining is treating food with brine or coarse salt which preserves and seasons the food while enhancing tenderness and flavor with additions such as herbs, spices, sugar, caramel or vinegar.

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Calcium hydroxide

Calcium hydroxide (traditionally called slaked lime) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca(OH)2.

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Chamois leather

Chamois leather is a type of porous leather, traditionally the skin of the chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), a type of European mountain goat, but today made almost exclusively from the flesh split of a sheepskin.

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Charles Dibdin the younger

Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin (17 October 1768 – 15 January 1833), or Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger, as he was professionally known, was an English dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

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Club (weapon)

A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistory. Shillelagh and club (weapon) are clubs (weapon).

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College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (11 November 1935 – 11 July 2014) was an Irish lexicographer, journalist and author.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Ferrule

A ferrule (a corruption of Latin viriola "small bracelet", under the influence of ferrum "iron") is any of a number of types of objects, generally used for fastening, joining, sealing, or reinforcement.

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Finnegan's Wake

"Finnegan's Wake" is an Irish-American comic ballad, first published in New York in 1864.

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Genitive case

In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.

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Gill (publisher)

Gill is an independent publisher and distributor based in Dublin, Ireland.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hiberno-English

Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Inflatable

An inflatable is an object that can be inflated with a gas, usually with air, but hydrogen, helium, and nitrogen are also used.

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Irish Guards

The Irish Guards (IG) is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Irish mythology

Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland.

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It's the Same Old Shillelagh

"It's the Same Old Shillelagh" is an Irish novelty song written by Pat White.

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James S. Donnelly Jr.

James S. Donnelly Jr. (born 1943) is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specialised in nineteenth-century Irish history.

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Knobkerrie

A knobkerrie, also spelled knobkerry, knobkierie, and knopkierie (Afrikaans), is a form of wooden club, used mainly in Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. Shillelagh and knobkerrie are clubs (weapon), Primitive weapons and Ritual weapons.

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Language change

Language change is the process of alteration in the features of a single language, or of languages in general, across a period of time.

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Leprechaun

A leprechaun (lucharachán/leipreachán/luchorpán) is a diminutive supernatural being in Irish folklore, classed by some as a type of solitary fairy.

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Magpie

Magpies are birds of various species of the family Corvidae.

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Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, popularly known as the Lit.

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Mark Grant (baseball)

Mark Andrew Grant (born October 24, 1963), nicknamed "Mud", is an American former professional starting pitcher and is the current color commentator for the San Diego Padres' television broadcasts.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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MGM-51 Shillelagh

The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon).

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Munster

Munster (an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south of the island.

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New York Army National Guard

The New York Army National Guard is a component of the New York National Guard and the Army National Guard.

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are the athletic teams that represent the University of Notre Dame.

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The Notre Dame–USC football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team of the University of Notre Dame and USC Trojans football team of the University of Southern California, customarily played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving Day when the game is in Los Angeles or on the second or third Saturday of October when the game is in South Bend, Indiana.

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Past Brothers

The Past Brothers Rugby League Football Club, or Brisbane Brothers Rugby League Football Club nicknamed the Leprechauns, or more commonly known as Brothers, or as The Brethren, was a rugby league club based in the city of Brisbane, Australia, that played in the top level of football from its foundation in 1929 until 1998.

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Patrick Weston Joyce

Patrick Weston "P.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae.

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Rocky Road to Dublin

"Rocky Road to Dublin" is a 19th-century Irish song written by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool, England from his home in Tuam, Ireland.

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Royal Dragoon Guards

The Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Royal Irish Regiment (1992)

The Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd, 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) (R IRISH) is a light infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby XIII in non-Anglophone Europe and South America, and referred to colloquially as football, footy or league in its heartlands, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring wide and long with H-shaped posts at both ends.

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Rungu (weapon)

A rungu (Swahili, plural marungu) is a wooden throwing club or baton bearing special symbolism and significance in certain East African tribal cultures. Shillelagh and rungu (weapon) are Primitive weapons.

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Sabre

A sabre (French: ˈsabʁ, or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.

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San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego.

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Sgian-dubh

A sgian-dubh – also anglicized as skene-dhu – is a small, single-edged knife worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland dress.

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Shillelagh (barony)

Shillelagh is a barony in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.

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Soot

Soot is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.

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Stick-fighting

Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting, is a variety of martial arts which use simple long, slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden "sticks" for fighting, such as a gun staff, bō, jō, walking stick, baston, arnis sticks or similar weapons.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tonicity

In chemical biology, tonicity is a measure of the effective osmotic pressure gradient; the water potential of two solutions separated by a partially-permeable cell membrane.

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University and college rivalry

Pairs of schools, colleges and universities, especially when they are close to each other either geographically or in their areas of specialization, often establish a university or college rivalry with each other over the years.

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University of Wisconsin Press

The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals.

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USC Trojans

The USC Trojans (also Southern California Trojans) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.

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Whale oil

Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales.

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Whiteboys

The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming.

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William Carleton

William Carleton (4 March 1794, Prolusk (often spelt as Prillisk as on his gravestone), Clogher, County Tyrone – 30 January 1869, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin) was an Irish writer and novelist.

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Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American publisher of games, most of which are based on fantasy and science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores.

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357th Fighter Group

The 357th Fighter Group was an air combat unit of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War.

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69th Infantry Regiment (New York)

The 69th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillelagh

Also known as Bata (martial arts), Bataireacht, Irish stick fight, Irish stick fighting, Irish stick-fighting, Irish stickfighting, Irish walking stick, Rince an Bhata Uisce Bheatha, Shalalee, Shaleilagh, Shelaylee, Shelele, Shellalegh, Shilayla, Shilaylee, Shileilee, Shillalah, Shilleilagh, Shillelagh (club), Shillelagh Law, Shillelah, Uisce Beatha Bata Rince.

, Rugby league, Rungu (weapon), Sabre, San Diego Padres, Sgian-dubh, Shillelagh (barony), Soot, Stick-fighting, The New York Times, Tonicity, University and college rivalry, University of Wisconsin Press, USC Trojans, Whale oil, Whiteboys, William Carleton, Wizards of the Coast, 357th Fighter Group, 69th Infantry Regiment (New York).

Shillelagh, the Glossary

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See also

Clubs (weapon)

Primitive weapons

Ritual weapons

References