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• n  a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
• n  erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

• The KENNEDY CLAN is as handsome and spirited as a meadow full of Irish thoroughbreds, as tough as a blackthorn shillelagh, as ruthless as Cuchulain, the mythical hero who cast up .
• Red Mike carries a blackthorn cane (as a boy he injured his hip in a fall), talks tough, and considers his greatest achievement a daring sit-down strike he pulled in 1937.
• The Kennedy clan is as handsome and spirited as a meadow full of Irish thoroughbreds, as tough as a blackthorn shillelagh, as ruthless as Cuchulain, the mythical hero who cast up .

• sloe
• Prunus spinosa
• pear haw
• pear hawthorn
• Crataegus calpodendron
• Crataegus tomentosa

News & Articles

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• Yachtstock River Jam returns to Essington this month
  Yachtstock River Jam will return to Tinicum Township this year, from 12-10 p.m. on Saturday, June 15 at West End Boat Club, 500 W. 2nd St. The Irish Rock Band Blackthorn will headline the event which will feature two stages and 16 bands jamming on the banks of the Delaware River.
  June 15, 2013 - Ridley Town Talk