| Author | : Janet Nolan |
| Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0807573434 |
A family retells the story of the shillelagh that was whittled from a tree. During the Irish potato famine, Fergus and his family left for America. But first Fergus cut a branch from a blackthorn tree to take a piece of Ireland with him.
| Author | : John W. Hurley |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1430325704 |
For centuries the Irish have been associated with a stick weapon called the Shillelagh. And for generations of Irishmen, the Shillelagh was a badge of honor - a symbol of their courage, their martial prowess and their willingness to fight for their rights and their honor. In modern popular culture, the Shillelagh has acquired a less appealing image, one that attempts to declaw the Irish through negative racial stereotypes of the Victorian era, which depict the Irish as harmless club-weilding Leprecauns or drunken, half-witted brawlers. John Hurley's illuminating study forever alters our view of this much maligned and misunderstood cultural icon by revealing the true martial arts culture of the Irish people, its history, evolution and decline and the resulting effects on the Shillelagh - the most powerful and controversial of Irish icons.
| Author | : Edna Barth |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618096510 |
Shamrocks, shillelaghs, reed pipes, and leprechauns--these are some of the many symbols that remind us of St. Patrick's Day. Who was St. Patrick? And what is this early spring holiday all about? With warmth and vitality, Edna Barth tells the colorful stories, legends, and historical facts behind St. Patrick's Day and shows how the spirit of this ancient Irish holiday is still alive in many countries. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Ursula Arndt, this is a book to be discovered and read with pleasure by young readers. All of Edna Barth's classic holiday books are now being reissued with fresh, new jacket designs and fun activities inside the paperback covers.
| Author | : John Hurley |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2018-03-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781986974073 |
The Shillelagh has become synonymous with stereotypes about the "Fighting Irish." The truth is that shillelagh fighting was originally a form of fencing which required training, discipline and skill. Often combining stick-fencing with boxing and wrestling, shillelagh fighting was a once a complex mixed martial art. Now for the first time "Fighting Irish: The ARt Of Irish Stick-Fighting" describes and analyzes this fascinating sport, its essential nature and techniques. This authoritative classic contains clear cut descriptions of the most important offensive and defensive stick-fighting positions and methods. For the first time in history the basic concepts of Irish shillelagh fighting are laid out and explained for both the martial artist and the the interested reader.
| Author | : R G Allanson-Winn |
| Publisher | : Antiquarius |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2020-09-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781647985387 |
In Broad-sword and Single-Stick, authors Winn and Wolley state: "One of the prettiest little compliments you can pay a man is to call him a 'good old sportsman'." This may be true, particularly in 1918, when the book was initially published. In it, the authors aim to educate those "good old sportsmen" on techniques of fighting and defense with the broadsword (a medieval throwback) and the single-stick, a wooden weapon with a basket hilt vaguely reminiscent of a fencing foil. Dripping with English machismo, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley was also a boxing enthusiast and wrote a book on that subject as well. What may come as a surprise, however, is that in 1913 the Baron converted to Islam, and authored several books on Islam under the name Shaikh Rahmatullah al-Farooq.
| Author | : Michael Murphy |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2011-06-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1453218815 |
A spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy—John Updike called this unique novel “a golf classic if any exists in our day.” When an American traveler on his way to India stops to play a round on one of the most beautiful and legendary golf courses in Scotland, he doesn’t know that his game—and his life—are about to change forever. He is introduced to Shivas Irons, a mysterious golf pro whose sublime insights stick with him long after the eighteenth hole. From the first swing of the Scotsman’s club, he realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day. By turns comic, existential, and semiautobiographical, Michael Murphy’s tale traces the arc of twenty-four hours, from a round of golf on the Links of Burningbush to a night fueled by whiskey, wisdom, and wandering—even a sighting of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts the hole they call Lucifer’s Rug. “Murphy’s book is going to alter many visions,” The New York Times Book Review declared. More than an unforgettable approach to one of the world’s most popular sports, Golf in the Kingdom is a meditation on the power of a game to transform the self.
| Author | : Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1446172929 |
| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1114 |
| Release | : 1970 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Timothy M. Shannon |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2012-11-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781480244962 |
Danny Dailey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, settles with his family along the banks of the Buffalo Creek. Shunned by the Protestant settlers in the village of Buffalo, they are befriended by the Seneca Indians dwelling along the creek. Finding themselves caught up in the War of 1812 the family struggles for survival on the Niagara Frontier. This accurate portrayal of the harsh life on the Niagara Frontier follows Danny and his descendents through the war, the building of the Erie Canal, the rapid growth of the tiny village of Buffalo, and it's emergence as the Queen City of the Lakes.
