Our May 2026 edition is absolutely packed with Irish field archery news, stories, reports, interviews, history, tips, photos, and community spirit. Inside this issue: coverage from UKIFAC 2026 in Wales, Jack Pinson’s bow-making course at Carrowmore, shoot reports from Loch…
Why does an arrow that leaves the bow with a clean report begin to plane left or right before it meets the mark? I set that question beside a scarred ash shaft on my kitchen table; the pile had cut…
What does Teresa’s transverberation reveal about embodied theology? I read chapter 29 of the Vida as an account of knowledge entering the creature through injury, motion, heat, cry, and aftermath. The famous angel with the flaming shaft does not ornament…
The Forest God and the Forbidden Zone A red elk breaks through cedar shadow with a prince upon its back, each hoof striking root and loam with the grave insistence of blood borne under oath, while, in another cinematic country…
On the Rock of Dunamase the limestone rises with a clenched grammar, as though the earth had learned law from iron, and as though the plain of Laois, which looks gentle when the sun lies low, had carried a memory…
A question lodged in my mouth with the abrasive persistence of a burr caught inside a sock, and from that small irritation the whole inquiry drew its shape: when a yew bow sings, which vessel receives the hymn—the timber itself,…
Calibration of the Shot: The Sensory Assault Indoor archery is a sensory assault. At my first events, the environment was a wall of high-gain distortion—the sharp bite of the buzzer followed by the thunderous “thwack” of a collective volley. My…
In the high-stakes run-up to Nationals and European championships, the search for the “perfect flight” often leads us to make gear adjustments that our bodies aren’t prepared for. I recently picked up a new set of arrows for the competitions,…
—What flies by consent, strikes by measure, gathers strangers into quiet, then leaves a single hole in the character of its testimony? A clear answer emerged through the organising work behind EIAC 2026 in Waterford. Leadership remained visible, with named…
The Mane, Huzken (The Venom State), City Capital Lajo – Typhon Resurgence, Day 15 Despite the disaster that was the culling contract in Vrenki, it was good to be back home, Fergus thought. For one thing they had made a…
Issue 51 arrives packed with exciting material: shoot reports and a winter-league pictorial from Loch Riach; coverage of the IFAF National Indoor Championships; Mailmatch updates from across the country; and Craigavon’s IFAF double round and single round shoot. A Redfox…
Last Christmas, we had the great pleasure of announcing that ETO 2027 is coming to Ireland—news that fills all of us with real excitement. Ireland now joins the wider TAI family with anticipation and hope, and with pride too: pride…
Chapter 3 of Bowhunter
The Acromion Divot A Movement-Based Approach to the Bow Shoulder A Perspective on Movement I want to start by saying that I am not an archery coach, and I am under no delusion that I am. What I do have,…
Lecture on Houdon’s Louvre Diane, where toe-balance and a crescent seam make chastity a crafted law. What runs on a single toe yet makes your own feet grow heavy; what bares a body yet tightens a law; what offers a…
Very rarely in our lives do we meet someone who, through their very existence, inspires in us the desire to become better. No one is born with that gift. It demands sacrifice, and it often grows out of difficult—sometimes dramatic—events.…
Room 044 in the Museo del Prado carried a disciplined brightness, the sort a ministry might approve, as the building’s stone drank the street and returned it as a pale, steady radiance. I stood where the wall surrendered to Titian’s…
What travelled farther: the bolt that left the string, or the hand that held the string and trembled, deciding, for a heartbeat, whether mercy had any jurisdiction over hunger? Quid longius it: telum an animus? A question suited to a…
Quae avis post mortem longissime volavit, dum caro iuxta focum mansit, ossa iuxta fossam quieverunt?What bird flew farthest after death, while its flesh stayed near the hearth, and its bones stayed near the ditch? A frost had sat on the…
Which servant flies truer than any oath, drinks the heat of a living wrist, obeys a boy’s tremor and a god’s vanity, and yet carries a sovereignty that begins at release and ends only where the point decides? A glove…