Greetings from Ireland Maxine, you are doing an excellent job of keeping the old art alive. The -eacht at the end of Bataireacht......is often appended to the end of words to indicate 'doing the activity of' .. ....in this sense its like Japanese 'the way' or Do in Ju-do or karate-do. Bata = stick. Bataireacht =the way of the stick. Japanese Jo-do or Tanbo-do ( for the short stick.)
@bataireachtandhistoricalfe239
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the message!
@OliverJanseps
7 ай бұрын
Thank you very mutch for this ❤️🔥😊
@bataireachtandhistoricalfe239
6 ай бұрын
You're so welcome!
@Outrider74
7 ай бұрын
Good presentation. Francis McCaffrey interviewed a fellow named Simon Keegan who has a school for his family bata style as well (I think he’s in either Ireland or England)
@jacobharris954
6 ай бұрын
Just saved on his few days ago
@raymondsosnowski9717
6 ай бұрын
I have been intrigued for many years with the apparent similarities of the shillelagh (my wife's ethnic heritage) and the Carpathian Mountain Axe, also referred to as a shepherd's axe (a walking stick axe from my cultural heritage). It's interesting to hear that the shillelagh came from a walking stick axe. The Carpathian Mountain Axe is shared by regional cultures in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary (which all have their own specific terms to refer to it). I have not found a living tradition of its actual use per-se, but I have observed some techniques preserved in the men's folk dances of Hungary, Poland & Ukraine. Also in these countries, it was s symbol of resistance & rebellion.
@raymondsosnowski9717
6 ай бұрын
P.S., I do know of a partially preserved system of 19th-century Hungarian Huszar Fokos (FOH-kohsh) taught in Irving, Texas, USA, by Russ Mitchell who learned it in Budapest in the 1990s; it's a military 'battle ax,' a longer shaft version of the Carpathian Mountain Axe, and it's typically used with 2-hands. He has published this in his 2019 text ""Hungarian Hussar Sabre and Fokos Fencing." For the record, my walking stick art is the Japanese Uchida-ryū_Tanjō-jutsu - late 19th-century walking stick vs. Japanese 'Katana' in the form of a wooden Bokutō.
@eugenemcgovern9703
Ай бұрын
They would put the sticks up the chimney to season them that's how they became blackened. Goose fat was used to waterproof them if you could afford boot polish you might use that .Anything you could get your hands on basically.
@garyowen766
6 ай бұрын
very interesting! :)
@bataireachtandhistoricalfe239
6 ай бұрын
Glad you think so!
@raymondsosnowski9717
6 ай бұрын
BTW, guys, I am certainly enjoying your video clips & shorts!
@bataireachtandhistoricalfe239
6 ай бұрын
Glad you like them!
@ardrihighking9838
6 ай бұрын
... u may be interested to know that the Irish word 'air' = 'slayer'!!!
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