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A shillelagh (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ l eɪ l i,-l ə / shil-AY-lee, -lə; Irish: sail éille or saill éalaigh [1] [ˌsˠal̠ʲ ˈeːlʲə], "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.
The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat future armor without an excessively large gun.
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The Old Shillelagh iconic Irish pub in Greektown is adding a walk-up window that will open at 8 a.m. and feature breakfast bowls and smoothies.
A team of burglars was no match for the fighting Irish. Dan Donovan, an 81-year-old former Marine, used his grandfather’s old shillelagh walking stick to drive a gang of goons out of his Niles ...
"It's the Same Old Shillelagh" is an Irish novelty song written by Pat White. Its subject is a young Irish-American who inherits his father's shillelagh . The composer himself recorded this song on May 25, 1927 for Victor Records (No. 20760), [ 1 ] and the record was distributed through the Yorkville Phonograph Shop in New York City.
With a shout for the land of shillelagh. Far away in the west rode a dashing young blade And the song he was singing so gaily, 'Twas honest Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade And the song of the splintered shillelagh. The day after battle, the dead lay in heaps And Paddy lay bleeding and gory, With a hole in his breast where some enemy's ball
The Shillelagh branch line was a branch line of some 16.5 miles (26.6 km) to Shillelagh, County Wicklow opened by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) in 1865. [1] It joined the Dublin–Rosslare railway line at Woodenbridge halt.