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Subject: Arthur McBride...strange word From: GUEST,Arlene McBride Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:25 PM Anyone know what a shilaylee is? I'm spelling that phonetically, and does anyone know the proper spelling? |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Peace Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:33 PM "A shillelagh (pronounced "shuh-LAY-lee") is a Gaelic war club made of oak or blackthorn saplings from Ireland. Those are the only woods used because, it is said, they are the only ones tougher than an Irish skull." |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Scotus Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:42 PM are you related? |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Peace Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:48 PM LOL |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Jon W. Date: 16 Feb 06 - 05:28 PM The sticks were carried as walking sticks but were also used as weapons if the occasion required! |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:04 PM Self Defence only, of course! |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Peace Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:07 PM Absolutely . . . . |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: frogprince Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:14 PM It's The Same Old Shillelagh Written by Pat White 1940 Sure it's the same old shillelagh Me Father brought from Ireland. And Divil a man prouder than He, As He walked with it in his hand. He'd lead the band on Paddy's Day And twirle it round his mitt And divil a bit we'd laught at it Or Dad would have a fit Sure with the same old shillelagh Me Father could lick a dozen men As fastas they'd get up be gorry, He'd knock'em down again And many's the time He used it on me To make me understand the same old shillelagh Me Father brought from Ireland. |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM They sell "shillelaghs" tarted up with green ribbons and that stuff as souvenirs for tourists. A good blackthorn stick is a much better souvenir, and they're handy for walking (and a lot more use as a fighting stick if it came to that). |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: open mike Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:38 PM and Blackthorn Ale is even better! (hard apple cider) http://www.4walkingsticks.com/canes.htm |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Peace Date: 16 Feb 06 - 08:40 PM Drink ten or so of them and the blackthorn stick becomes a necessity. |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Mo the caller Date: 17 Feb 06 - 05:33 AM There is a song which I know as "With me shillelagh under me arm" but Mudcat searches send me to the thread "Off to Philadelphia". I dont remember the words, but think me version of the chorus starts with "With me shillelagh under me arm". |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Mo the caller Date: 17 Feb 06 - 05:35 AM And of course theres an excellent dance tune called "The blackthorn stick", can't play it though, all the good Irish tunes go faster than my fingers. |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: David C. Carter Date: 17 Feb 06 - 06:01 AM Anther one starts: "With me shillelagh up me kilt and a twinkle in me eye, I'll be off to Tipperary in the morning" D |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: JennyO Date: 17 Feb 06 - 06:25 AM I remember that shillelagh song being played on the radio when I was a child, and I have a tune in my head for the chorus, but I had to look up the words. Not sure if this is all correct - it seems to have one verse with only two lines, and a strange word in the last verse, but it was the only one I could find. With Me Shillelagh Under Me Arm Sure I'm tired of roamin' round, and I'm gonna pack my grip And I'm off to book my passage, on a mighty powerful ship I'll be bound to send a telegram, the day I reach the key Just to tell them in a week or two, they'll be expecting me. Chorus: With me shillelagh under me arm, and a twinkle in me eye I'll be off to Tipperary in the mornin' With me shillelagh under my arm, and a too-ral-loo-ral-i I'll be welcome in the home that I was born in. My mother told the neighbors, that I'm gonna settle down Phil, the fluter's comin out, to play me round the town Chorus Sure, I'm feeling mighty fine, and I've got bags of money too And I mean to give the folks at home a proper Irish due There'll be such a welcome waiting, for your 'umble(?) on the mat I can just imagine people sayin', Ah, how are you Pat? Chorus |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: GUEST,mick Date: 17 Feb 06 - 09:19 AM The Shillelagh Woods in County Wicklow gave the name . |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Paul Burke Date: 17 Feb 06 - 09:37 AM Shillelagh Woods? I thought she was Tiger's sister. |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: voyager Date: 17 Feb 06 - 09:49 AM One of my favorite sentimental Civil War Ballads is "Honest Pat Murphy" which includes these verses - Far away in the East was a dashing young blade, And the song he was singing so gayly, Was honest Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade And the song of the splintered shillelagh. No more in the camp will his letters be read Or the songs be heard singing so gayly He died far away from the land the he loved For he died far away from the friends that he loved And far from the land of shillelagh. Honest Pat Murphy voyager BTW - We use slillelaghs with our Boy Scout troop when teaching a two-person technique for log-splitting :^> |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: kendall Date: 17 Feb 06 - 09:51 AM I have a blackthorn walking stick. It came in handy when a neighbor's dog came at me.I didn't use the knobby end because I didn't want to seriously hurt him, but the other end was enough to keep him on his own property when my dog and I walk past. |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: robomatic Date: 17 Feb 06 - 11:01 AM Bruce you wrote: "A shillelagh (pronounced "shuh-LAY-lee") is a Gaelic war club made of oak or blackthorn saplings from Ireland. Those are the only woods used because, it is said, they are the only ones tougher than an Irish skull." Must be why Americans have gone over to galvanized pipe! |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: Flash Company Date: 17 Feb 06 - 11:03 AM Then, of course, there was 'Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan', Did you know O'Sullivan played the Irish harp? I did not! Sure and he did, he put forty eight strings on his two shillelaghs, stretched them out at arms-length and had two leprechauns dance on them to make the music. No man could do that! It's O'Sullivan I'm talking about! Oh, He could! I must stop drinking at lunch time! FC |
Subject: RE: Arthur McBride...strange word From: jojofolkagogo Date: 17 Feb 06 - 12:20 PM Kevin (McGrath of Harlow !) How would YOU know ??? a more docile man I have never met !! PS Love your beard !!! (when we gonna see you around the clubs then? - miss your silly songs) Best regards from Jo-Jo (jojofllkagogo@yahoo.com) |
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