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The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun (cannon). It was originally intended to be the medium-range portion of a short, medium, and long-range system for armored fighting vehicles in the 1960s and '70s to defeat future armor without an excessively large gun.
A shillelagh (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ l eɪ l i,-l ə / shil-AY-lee, -lə; Irish: sail éille or saill éalaigh [1] [ˌsˠal̠ʲ ˈeːlʲə], "thonged willow") is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top.
A cantrip is a magic spell of any kind, [1] or one which reads the same forward and backward. [citation needed] It can also be a witch's trick, or a sham. [2]The word "cantrip", of Scots origin, possibly comes from the Gaelic term canntaireachd, a piper's mnemonic chant. [3]
There is no actual connection between the walking sticks with the village or forest of Shillelagh (Irish: Síol Éalaigh, meaning "descendants of Éalach") in County Wicklow, other than the fact that both the original Irish names have ended up with the same Anglicized pronunciation. [2] Today the woods are owned and protected by the Irish State.
With a shout for the land of shillelagh. Far away in the west rode a dashing young blade And the song he was singing so gaily, 'Twas honest Pat Murphy of the Irish Brigade And the song of the splintered shillelagh. The day after battle, the dead lay in heaps And Paddy lay bleeding and gory, With a hole in his breast where some enemy's ball
What's the Shillelagh's armor penetration? Are the modern-day Sheridans still using Shillelagh? 75.16.63.238 00:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC) No, both Sheridans and Shillelaghs are out of service. Even the VISMOD Sheridans used by OPFOR at Ft. Irwin were deactived and replaced at about the end of 2003.
The Friendly Sons of the Shillelagh is an Irish-American fraternal organization founded in 1964 by Jack Dunphy and Harry Knox, initially to get an Irish group from Old Bridge, New Jersey to march in the Newark, New Jersey Saint Patrick's Day parade.
The Shillelagh branch line was a branch line of some 16.5 miles (26.6 km) to Shillelagh, County Wicklow opened by the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR) in 1865. [1] It joined the Dublin–Rosslare railway line at Woodenbridge halt.