How to: Doyle Clan Irish Stick Fighting (Lesson 1) Shillelagh Bataireacht

A Stil Ui Dhubhghaill beginner class. Glen Doyle teaches traditional Irish stick techniques passed onto him by his late father, Gregory Doyle. The “Newfie“ Shillelagh or Doyle Bataireacht or simply Doyle Clan Irish Stick Fighting is a devastatingly effective two-handed combative system developed well over 300 years ago by a Doyle family in Ireland. This system was brought to Canada in the early 1800s via a Doyle who settled in the rough and tumble landscape of the Atlantic’s Newfoundland coast. As most of the stick fighting styles eventually became extinct in Ireland (due to socio-political changes, and access to other forms of modern weapons etc), The Doyle Clan ’Rince an Bhata Uisce Beatha’ was practiced, guarded, nurtured, further evolved, and passed on through the Doyle family residing in Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. Because of this reason, Glen Doyle the style’s ’living lineage’ has decided to move forward with the term ’Newfie Shillelagh’ rather than the generic ’Irish Stick Fighting’.