John W. Hurley

John W. Hurley was born in Newark, NJ to an Irish immigrant father and American born mother. He is the author of "Irish Gangs And Stick-Fighting," "Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick," "The Shillelagh Makers Handbook" and "Fighting Irish: The Art Of Irish Stick-Fighting." Hurley is considered the world's foremost authority on the history, traditions and culture of traditional Irish martial arts, having researched the subject since the early 1990’s. He is also a practitioner of Irish stick-fighting.