shillalah
- n a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn)
- When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work.
- Soon he had been presented with a shillalah.
- They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah.