Student of the art column
Category TIFAM Archive
An archer’s spindle of literature
The Archer’s Compass, Part I Sophocles’ Philoctetes is such a tale. A story, not of victory, but of exile. Picture him there on that rocky isle of Lemnos, its crags jutting up like broken teeth from the indifferent sea. The…...
ANDREW’S 20 Questions – #25 Clodagh Nolan
Welcome Clodagh and thank you in advance as I know this is going to be an interesting chat with you.We go back a long way with the club with lots of memories, mostly of a happy and fun nature but…...
Archers Talkin’ Archery – Keith Henderson
More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
Marcin’s Favourite historical Figures Column
Eugen Herrigel. The name doesn’t stride confidently through history’s corridors. It lingers instead in its dimly lit corners, somewhere between the poetry of a fleeting idea and the stern weight of unyielding reality. You won’t find him leading armies or…...
Smack my controversy column
The sacred cow of archery technique—the release. Countless books, videos, and coaching seminars have exalted the act of letting the string slip from the fingers as the moment of transcendent perfection, the alpha and omega of a good shot. But…...
Lesser things and trivia column
The leaden days of socialist monotony in the 1970s and 80s had an odd way of pressing on the spirit, like a cold fog that never actually lifted. But even in the dreary grind of lining up for bread, sugar…...
SIFA indoor champs
This and that monthly column
The New “Job”
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Blackbird Monthly Column
Allow me to introduce myself: James Byrne is my name, and I am a member of Redfox Archers Club. I also host a small podcast called Blackbird Podcast, which I endeavor to publish once a week on YouTube and Spotify.
TIFAM FESTIVAL UPDATE
This year’s festival, now in its third edition, promises something very different from all its precedents. It will be a celebration not only of the discipline of archery but also of its growing reach and resonance in Irish communities. Perhaps…
“Field Ready” outdoor Column
Archery Gear Reviews:
Bearpaw’s Arrow Analyser So first up for the Archer Gear Review is the Bearpaw Arrow Analyzer. So what does an Arrow Analyzer do, well it measures the weight, the spine and estimates the straightness of the arrows. The analyzer comes…...
Archers Talkin’ Archery – Daria Casement
More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
Freedom’s Quiet Flame
The dimly lit, rain-soaked cinemas of 1980s Soviet life provided brief but significant havens. Among the films, Sergei Tarasov's 1985 Чернaя стрела (The Black Arrow) stood out not only as entertainment but also as an event—an artefact of a society struggling with its paradoxes. Under the heavy shadow of a collapsing Soviet ideology, this rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson's story connected as both metaphor and adventure, a revolt against the ordinary disguised as historical epic.
Archers Talkin’ Archery – Karen Tufts
More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
Archers Talkin’ Archery – Jack Tomlinson
More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
Arrows of Inspiration
A life spent among words—their ripples, their surges, their deceptive ebbs—is also a life surrendered to a quiet yet consuming enchantment. The strangely beautiful paths they carve alternate between the solid ground of reality and the mercurial landscapes uplifted in…...
Steel, Shadows, and Scorched Earth
Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince—his name, steeped in ink as dark as a storm-laden sky, calls forth images of a knight both magnificent and terrible, a figure who rode the tangled path between chivalry and carnage. The chronicles recount…...