As with most vernacular martial arts, it is difficult to establish the origin of the art. The Irish have used various sticks and cudgels as weapons of self-defence for centuries. This grip also allows launching fast punching-like strikes. The stick is grabbed by the third of the handle end, the lower part protecting the elbow and allowing the user to maintain an offensive as well as defensive guard. The style is mostly characterized by the use of a cudgel, or knobbed stick, of different lengths but most often the size of a walking stick.
Various linguists borrowed his theory throughout the years, but it was also dismissed by other scholars for its lack of a rationale.Ĭommon woods used to make sticks included Blackthorn, oak, ash and hazel were traditionally the most common types of woods used to make shillelagh fighting sticks. Dinneen briefly notes that Sail Éille means "thonged cudgel", and seems to allude it was later anglicized as shillelagh. Dinneen in the 1927 edition of his Foclóir Gaedhilge agus Béarla dictionnary. Another theory was brought up by Patrick S. This explanation can be found in many different sources from the 18th and 19th centuries, and is considered the most popular one. The first documentable use of the word “Shillelagh” in English, was in 1755, in Thomas Sheridan's The Brave Irishman the expression there is used side to side with "Andreaferrara" by the protagonist to refer to his sword in the same manner as he refers to "Shillela", hinting at a genericization. This is the meaning that many authors of the 18th and 19th centuries used when talking about shillelaghs, for example William Carleton who talked of cudgels made of "good shillelah". As the oak coming from this region was in high demand, the term started to be applied to good quality sticks. The most popular one is that the name came from a genericization of the forest of Shillelagh, a barony situated in County Wicklow, and famous for its oak forests in the 18th century. There are a two theories as to the origin of the word "shillelagh". The actual bata used for bataireacht is commonly called a shillelagh. Hurley and introduced back into modern usage in the late 1990’s.īataireacht is a category of stick-fighting martial arts of Ireland. Although an old term, it was used by author John W.
In Irish martial arts, bataireacht ( pronounced meaning 'stick-fighting') (also called boiscín and ag imirt na maidí ) refers to a form of stick-fighting from Ireland. JSTOR ( March 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īata, Boiscín, Irish stick-fighting, ag imirt na maidí.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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