Never heard about that irish tradition, so, for me it's not a real fact at all... on the other side, that kind of axed pike was quite usual in Scotland since the middle ages until Culloden's disaster. It's even noticed by the english, who were surprised that clansmen would use such primitive weapons to beat them in so many battles during the '45.
...maybe it was a more effective arm than what it seems at first sight, on the same way I heard that during the napoleonic wars maybe the re-introduction of longbows would have been much more effective than the musket firework, limited by distance and lack of accuracy, against all those closed squared formations!
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