How To Make A Shillelagh, Ireland 1986

March 15, 2022 2:46 PM

How To Make A Shillelagh, Ireland 1986 Such great comedy, so much melancholy.
posted by Buntix (14 comments total)

Back when YouTube was apparently dragging everyone down the alt-right Joe Rogan pipeline they were sending me a fairly continuous succession of old-footage documentaries of forgotten Scottish and Irish stuffs.

This was one of the best :D
posted by Buntix at 2:49 PM on March 15, 2022 [3 favorites]

Adding some of the others:

The Last of Ireland's Cycling Postmen, 1975

(and yes, I am absolutely flunking the essay I have due in 2 hours about the role the retconning of collective memory played in Ireland discovering their cultural identity and independence due being unable to write it because it's COMPLICATED and I know too much about it because a couple of years ago it was all I was sent to watch of an evening),
posted by Buntix at 3:06 PM on March 15, 2022 [4 favorites]

The Brothers - Paddy & Nicholas Butler

Part 2
posted by Buntix at 3:15 PM on March 15, 2022 [1 favorite]

Any hardwood'll do, so long as it's blackthorn, or oak.
posted by biogeo at 3:22 PM on March 15, 2022 [10 favorites]

Michael Fortune has kindly added subtitles to John and Ned - Ballyscough Bridge:
"B'the Holy, Ned"
"B'the fuck, John" etc.
posted by BobTheScientist at 3:32 PM on March 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

Don't read the transcript, unless you like dada non-sequiturs
posted by scruss at 5:30 PM on March 15, 2022 [3 favorites]

The lesser-known fifth member of The Mamas and The Papas.
posted by biogeo at 6:15 PM on March 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

Don't read the transcript, unless you like dada non-sequiturs
posted by scruss at 8:30 PM on March 15

As it just so happens, album fence orange.
posted by ZaphodB at 6:20 PM on March 15, 2022 [6 favorites]

The closed captioning was actually helpful to develop an ear for the patter. It was far from complete, but it was helpful. Oh, and creative as well, in how many ways it found to spell the word chelelia, sheliah, chiles, etc. None were right, but there was a wonderful variety in the effort.
posted by Cris E at 6:37 PM on March 15, 2022 [2 favorites]

A trapeze for the ear.
posted by rhizome at 6:47 PM on March 15, 2022 [7 favorites]

The thing is nobody in Ireland knows what a shillelagh is or ever refers to them, unless they're talking about the town in Co Wicklow of the same name, where the word comes from.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:14 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]

This is so timely, I was just shopping for an Irish club the other day. Walmart has a faux Cold Steel model for like $40. I just admired the pictures and moved on.
posted by valkane at 9:38 AM on March 16, 2022

Jack Ryan you say?
posted by valkane at 9:39 AM on March 16, 2022

Since I guess this is the Irish thread:

"In order to find his equal an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
posted by valkane at 10:03 AM on March 16, 2022 [1 favorite]