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# The Irish Field Archery Monthly

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- [Bowhunter - Chapter 2](https://tifam.ie/bowhunter-chapter-2/) - Matt Latimer - FREE ACCESS - 01/12/2025
- [A way to freeze time…](https://tifam.ie/a-way-to-freeze-time/) - Film review of documentary Mr and Mrs Perfect: Behind the Bow, tracing Mike and Gaby Schloesser through a season of elite archery, travel and new parenthood, and asking what perfection means when love, migration and ritual share the shooting line.
- [The Winged Bowyer of Parma](https://tifam.ie/the-winged-bowyer-of-parma/) - An in-depth look at Parmigianino’s Cupid Making His Bow in Vienna: the painter’s early life and family, the religious and cultural tensions of his time, and how a working boy-god with knife and bow exposes new angles on love, art, and power.
- [Iron in the Wind: The Making of Saint Edmund](https://tifam.ie/iron-in-the-wind-the-making-of-saint-edmund/) - A lyrical, historically grounded essay on the death and making of St Edmund of East Anglia, tracing how a ninth-century clash with the Viking Great Army became martyr legend, royal cult and the quiet iron still hanging in the woods of Suffolk.
- [Four years of TIFAM in 48 issues](https://tifam.ie/four-years-of-tifam-anniversary-48-issue-pdf/) - November carries a clear marker for The Irish Field Archery Monthly as Issue 48 completes four uninterrupted years of publication, reflection, and field-bred argument. The magazine stands as a continuous conversation between cold shoots and warm rooms, between physical discipline and intellectual attention, held in place by the loyalty of readers, contributors, and organisers who
- [Henry Pert - The Last Mistake he Ever Made in Archery](https://tifam.ie/henry-pert-the-last-mistake-he-ever-made-in-archery/) - Sometime ago I came across a peculiar, and dare I say comical, tid-bit of archery lore. When reading 1411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways, there came an entry that excited me greatly as it was archery related. In the year of our Lord, 1552, a Tudor archer named Henry Pert managed to kill himself
- [The Blood of Limoges — Fire, Record, and the Measure of a Prince](https://tifam.ie/the-blood-of-limoges-fire-record-and-the-measure-of-a-prince/) - Through fire and record, this essay reconsiders the 1370 sack of Limoges, as the Black Prince, ill yet resolute, punishes betrayal; letters, annals, and city topography temper Froissart’s legend while craft, law, and faces under ash restore measure and scale.
- [The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula — Red Cloak, Black Ground](https://tifam.ie/the-martyrdom-of-saint-ursula-red-cloak-black-ground/) - Before Caravaggio’s Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in Naples, a viewer traces light across armour while a witness’s face admits ashen remorse, as provenance, restoration, and Ursula’s Cologne–Venice legend converge, and consent steadies the arrow’s claim.
- [Bowhunter - Chapter I](https://tifam.ie/bowhunter-chapter-i/) - Matt Latimer
- [Corridor of Courage](https://tifam.ie/corridor-of-courage/) - A late-October meditation where Samhain and All Souls frame archery as rite: grief regulated by breath and form; ritual, memory, and pedagogy braid psychology, sociology, and theology into communal courage and a quiet vow to hold form and neighbour.
- [A Kingdom in the Balance](https://tifam.ie/a-kingdom-in-the-balance/) - Marceau Minvelle revisits 1066: Harold’s fall at Hastings—arrow or sword? Weighing Bayeux clues, Norman spin and English witness, he shows how oaths, wind and war remade a kingdom, while truth wavers between legend and record.
- [TIFAM 46 PDF](https://tifam.ie/tifam-46-pdf/) - In This Month's TIFAM: Gold Medals, Political Philosophy Through the archer's scope, and a Trip Through the Woods The September 2025 collector's edition of TIFAM is here, packed with tournament triumphs, deep dives into history and philosophy, and stories from the heart of the Irish archery community. Kicking off with an editor's note from James
- [TIFAM 47 PDF](https://tifam.ie/tifam-47-pdf/) - Field grit and autumn craft run through the issue: a full recap of the IFAF Bowhunter Champs in Killygarry where squalls, open lanes, and long holds turned every shot into a lesson; plus the UAR results from 31 August laid out cleanly for anyone planning their winter targets and benchmarking progress. Our two-part Strongbow Archers
- [The Fellowship and the Bell-Founder](https://tifam.ie/the-fellowship-and-the-bell-founder/) - Essay pairing The Fellowship of the Ring and Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev. On burden: ring destruction vs bell founding; grace, community, craft, violence and material ethics shaped by hands, tools, weather, sound. Covers fellowship dynamics and method. Martin Smallridge film review
- [When Heroes Fade](https://tifam.ie/when-heroes-fade/) - There’s a curious thing about homecomings. They aren’t quite what we imagine them to be, are they? A man sets out, faces the tempests of the world, and dreams of the day he will step across the threshold of home, of how the door will creak the same way it always did, how the air
- [A Reckoning in the Ice](https://tifam.ie/a-reckoning-in-the-ice/) - A winter reckoning at Nancy: Charles the Bold meets the new age of infantry. A halberd ends a rout while court glitter, hunger, ice, and wolves frame the fall; maps shift as Mary weds Maximilian and Europe tilts toward a long Habsburg–French contest.
- [The rules of the game](https://tifam.ie/the-rules-of-the-game/) - By Nick Anton Of late there has been much discussion on this subject and with the outdoor season hotting up and EHBC, UKIFAC the IFAF champs and WFAC just around the corner it’s a good time to walk through some of the issues people have been highlighting. The past while has been challenging in all
- [The Science of Arrows](https://tifam.ie/the-science-of-arrows/) - Introduction Archery would not be possible without arrows and they are the most important part of the equipment set. Tommy, the seminole indian referenced in Maurice Thompson’s 1878 book ‘The Witchery of Archery’ was alleged to have said to - “Any stick will do for bow, good arrow damn heap work”. Even in the early
- [A student of the art](https://tifam.ie/a-student-of-the-art/) - Brian Meehan of Drewstown Archers shares with us his wealth of knowledge gleaned from his ongoing research of archery. As a student of the art we look forward to learning from his extensive reading portfolio, along with getting the occassional glimpse of his most impressive collection of all things archery related. So here we kick
- [Field & Hunter Rounds. (The Dummy’s Guide)](https://tifam.ie/field-hunter-rounds-the-dummys-guide/) - By Owen Reynolds Field & Hunter Rounds. (The Dummy’s Guide) So, let’s get started. This year the Northern Ireland Field Archery Association (NIFAA) in association with Roe Valley Archery Club, will host the UK & Ireland Field Archery Championships (UKIFAC) at Oakgrove, Integrated College on the 20th and 21st of July 2024. As I type,
- [Archery Setup Basics: A Beginner’s Dictionary of...](https://tifam.ie/archery-setup-basics-a-beginners-dictionary-of/) - A calm first month comes from a few steady habits. Learn the names of the parts, follow clear steps, and keep short notes after each session. The dictionary below explains the core setup ideas that help every beginner on an any club line: brace height, bow stringers, safe stringing, nocking points, basic string knowledge, arrow-side Beginner archery made clear: brace height, safe stringing with a bow stringer, simple nocking points, AMO string length nock fit, and care. Learn step-by-step checks, quick fixes, and a small toolkit for reliable, repeatable shots — in club sessions.
- [Zombie Huntin' League](https://tifam.ie/zombie-huntin-league/) - Whilst it is close to Halloween, I would remind the reader, and archer, that zombies, the undead, however you refer to them, are not a seasonal problem. Just as much as a dog is just not for Christmas, a zombie not just for Halloween. And at Lough Cuan Bowmen, the hunting season on reanimated corpses
- [Bowhunter - Prologue](https://tifam.ie/bowhunter-prologue/) - Archers! A new fictional fantasy serial has just begun. Bowhunter - The deathly binds keeping a gigantic sea snake, the Vainglory Typhon, at bay have been broken. Thriving upon its territory for over a century, the citizens of Fohalin, their land, their cities, and their lives are devastated in the wake of the beast's return. Yet, as the great beast reclaims its territory, it brings with it more than just obliteration. Fohalin leadership shatters. Left in their stead is an excommunicated Pastoral from a foreign state, an unlucky and ungrateful hunter, and a pirate captain with a conscience who is bound to the will of his ship. In seeking to cull the titanic creature they are pitting themselves against something that does not need to adapt to its environment, but rather forces the environment to adapt to its presence.
- [A basic Guide to Paper Tuning for Beginners](https://tifam.ie/a-basic-guide-to-paper-tuning-for-archery/) - The inquiry is clear and simple: what is paper tuning, and how does a straightforward method on a home-built frame improve the flight of an arrow? A good question, for the true archer seeks efficiency, a clean, certain line between hand and target. This method, a kind of dialogue between the archer and the arrow,
- [Choosing Your First Bow Guide](https://tifam.ie/choosing-your-first-f-bow-guide/) - I came up with the idea to write this article after reading a message on the club’s chat—one of the fellow archers was curious about horse bows and asked for advice. I liked the brief exchange between him and one of our instructors, and their conversation nudged me to write this guide. Think of the
- [Author’s reflection on An Arrow Knows no master — thirteen lectures framing archery axioms in Western philosophy](https://tifam.ie/authors-reflection-on-an-arrow-knows-no-master-thirteen-lectures-framing-archery-axioms-in-western-philosophy/) - Time walks as my fiercest rival. It gathers more than it gifts and measures each hour with a strict hand, so I stepped straight through that pressure and wrote this book. The seed took hold two years ago as a modest framework for club life—ethical, philosophical, service-minded—and then the project grew its own breath. Books
- [Aim and Flow: Attention as Archery, Presence as Craft](https://tifam.ie/aim-and-flow/) - Knowledge gathers in the hands first. Before theory spreads its mesh, the body enters an agreement with wood, string, air, and ground. A seasoned yew settles into the palm with a weight that carries memory; cool grain moves under the thumb as if years travel along the nerves. Breath pulls damp earth and crushed grass
- [From Kyudo to Clout: Universal Truths in the Way of the Bow.](https://tifam.ie/from-kyudo-to-clout/) - Dear Readers, this article arose from a need of the spirit and from the shared curiosity of fellow archers who keep asking the same living questions. Two traditions—Japanese kyūdō and European field archery, especially clout—speak to each other through posture, breath, and release. I chose this topic because I share that hunger to understand the
- [The Barelegged King's End](https://tifam.ie/the-barelegged-kings-end/) - Wind comes off the Irish Sea with a brisk salt that pricks the lip and lifts the gull-cry over the lough, and the ground in Down remembers. The turf keeps a grain of hoof and boot, a thin echo of rivet and ring, a smear of iron where a spear kissed air and then rib.
- [Strength in Performance: Gender, Embodiment, and Judith Butler at the Line](https://tifam.ie/strength-in-performance/) - The physical discipline of archery begins with stance—applied biomechanics and declaration in one breath. An archer settles the feet, a shade wider than the hips, weight gathered forward so the balls of the feet drink seventy percent of the load. Clay presses through the soles as a solid fact, grit mapping itself into memory. The
- [Bow Hand Mastery: Art, Science, Soul](https://tifam.ie/bow-hand-mastery-art-science-soul/) - Let me begin plain. What follows isn’t a manual, and it isn’t a coaching note. I’ve no wish to stand in front of anyone with a whistle round my neck. I’m not a trainer, and I’ve never been much of a model student either. I’m simply a fellow who has spent years with bow and
- [The Shadow of the Gallowglass: Re-examining the Role of the Archer in Medieval Irish Warfare.](https://tifam.ie/the-shadow-of-the-gallowglass/) - You can feel it in the land still, if you’re quiet enough. The way the past breathes up through the soil. We talk of the great warriors, the high kings, the men who stood shield to shield with sword and spear, their names ringing in the old stories. We see the gallowglass, that great foreign
- [Archery on the Small Screen: Dark Age Bows Between Yew and Camera](https://tifam.ie/archery-on-the-small-screen/) - There are many films and series with archery; Vikings and The Last Kingdom carry the standard for today’s historical action. Both draw big audiences, both shape how viewers picture Dark Age war, and both bring bows into rain, firelight, and crowd-roar. A plain question guides the reading: how closely each production honours early-medieval archery—equipment, method,
- [Bowhunters in the North](https://tifam.ie/bowhunters-in-the-north/) - Once a year, Ballyvally Archers hosts a singular type of competition that exemplifies the enjoyment found in the sport: the Mulligan Hunting Trail. Whilst hunting Frank Mulligan is not the aim of the competition – and just as well as, despite his seniority shall we say, we all suspect it would be like going after
- [Chanjion](https://tifam.ie/chanjion/) - Animosity between Tevaller and Chanjion began when a Tevaller King had a vision of a serpent people putting nations in chains, believed to be the Chanjion. The Tevaller began occupying Chanjion land thereafter. Chanjion had no army, and at the sight of the Tevaller had to stand aside. Soon festered the abuses of power. The
- [Justice, of a Sort](https://tifam.ie/justice-of-a-sort/) - Aeker Murdock had been invited to a major archery event held in the Kingdom of Xellcarr. As the archery guild’s Master of Crows, he was often called upon to guest inspect private, or national, competitions. His title, a hangover from the guild’s earliest days when members could only shoot with crow feathers. Within Prince Lev
- [The Ways of Archery in “A Song of Ice and Fire”](https://tifam.ie/https-tifam-ie-the-ways-of-archery-in-a-song-of-ice-and-fire/) - Greetings, Readers... A clean field opens, a breeze crosses the skin, and a bow rises into that light like a living thought. A page turns, a world gathers, and George R. R. Martin’s archers step forward with quivers that carry whole histories. An arrow lives a short life through air, and yet it gathers centuries
- [Matt Latimer’s Archery Guild Stories Aim True](https://tifam.ie/matt-latimers-archery-guild-stories-aim-true/) - Editorial Review Matt Latimer’s short stories read like late talk around a small kitchen table after rain. You can hear the coat drip in the hall and the kettle sigh. You can see the bow propped by the door, clean and ready for morning. The voice does not strain. It carries the plain truth of
- [Smack my controversy Column](https://tifam.ie/smack-my-controversy-column-3/) - To draw the bow is to gather the world into your hands. Just before the first arrow flies, a hush settles—the kind that fills the chest with something heavier than air. The body enters its stance, feet firm, spine aligned, and the outer world withdraws. Only you remain, bound to the line between your heart
- [Wild Protein, Wild Ethics: Bowhunting, Foodways, and the Land](https://tifam.ie/wild-protein-wild-ethics-bowhunting-foodways/) - Elders share a winter story from the northern woods. Frost wrote its fine script across alder and birch, and a young hunter walked a corridor of blue light where breath rose like white birds. A doe stood in the hush and faced the hunter with calm eyes that held a country of knowing. The hunter lifted the bow, and the deer spoke across the space in a voice that sounded like river over stones: “Choose kinship or hunger, and shape hunger through kinship.” The hunter lowered the bow, set palm on the ground, and offered a strand of hair, a button, a pinch of meal from a pouch. The doe stepped forward, breathed into the hunter’s hand, and left one slender rib beside the offerings. From that bone came the first whistle for calling, and from that calling came a covenant—the people would eat through an agreement that carried respect in both directions. The deer would give, and the people would give in return, and the land would carry the memory of that exchange in grass, in hoofprint, in human song. Every archery season rises from that early promise: power serves when consent guides it, and meals carry honor when gratitude leads every step.
- [Telos of the Bow](https://tifam.ie/telos-of-the-bow/) - A sage from the auld days, a Roman steady at the helm of his own heart, praised the archer. He watched the draw and saw a likeness for a life well shaped. The whole purpose, the gathered labour of person and breath, seeks one thing: to send a straight shaft. Intention rises, the self gathers,
- [Foucault and the Learned Body](https://tifam.ie/foucault-and-the-learned-body/) - It begins with the heft of a thing in the hand, a weight rising like a question shaped in the palm. The first encounter with a tool that means business—a plane or a chisel—draws the room to attention. The body, raised on its own familiar grammar, meets a fresh syntax across the dense grain of
- [Artistry In Arrows](https://tifam.ie/artistry-in-arrows/) - For many of the past eleven years, I have been making my own arrows. This skill has developed little by little over time, as I read various articles, and listened to what other traditional archers had to say. Whilst it is a relatively simple craft, it can be monotonous, and laborious. For instance, self nocks.
- [The Lady of Roche](https://tifam.ie/the-lady-of-roche/) - Year of grace 1236 receives a crisp line in the Annals of Connacht, a sentence that carries armed men west with cart, banner, and purpose. Scribes set down the march of the Galls, naming lords, bishops, and kings, a cadence of spears and departures, a ledger where steel, oath, and burial speak in one breath. One world leans upon another across hedgerow and ford, and the record grants that leaning a bright authority. A greater stone rose that same year upon the rough rim of Ulster, a clenched statement of mastery with a woman’s will at its heart, though parchment offered silence where her name should stand. She answered through rock. She signed her life upon a crag that lifts above Louth, a defiant silhouette still blue against evening, a mark that survives every list and every tally. A Latin hand would call it Castellum de Rupe, Castle on the Rock, and that title seals her authorship with a clarity that withstands storm and time. A house like hers grows from ancient ground. The de Verduns rode from Vessey in Mortaine with the Norman tide of 1066 and pressed on through the marches of Wales toward Irish harbours that smelled of salt and promise. Bertram de Verdun, her grandfather, held the confidence of Henry II and of John. He turned that confidence into acres, into courts, into the kind of revenue that ripens into policy. He crossed with the prince in 1185 and set the line’s anchor where Dundalk greets the sea. Nicholas, his son, sired one heir to receive dominion spread across Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and Buckinghamshire, with the Irish lordship at Uriel tying sea to shire. That heir, Roesia, understood inheritance as vocation rather than accident. When she joined Theobald Butler in 1225 as his second wife, she looked through the Butler succession and measured her own. Her children would carry the surname that mattered to her line. John de Verdun arrived as testament to that resolve, and the syllables of his name carried a charter’s force. A surname becomes a land when a mind of iron sets the measure. The life of a lady of that century moved within measured corridors shaped by king, father, and husband. Roesia followed those corridors for a season. Henry III lent personal persuasion to her match, and she honoured the alliance with dignity, bearing children and tending the lattice of families that held the Lordship of Ireland together. Then fate altered the board. Theobald received the summons in 1230, gathered horses and arms, and rode toward Poitou with royal purpose. He died there beneath another sky. Within another year Nicholas also departed the stage. Grief forged a new balance within her and the law offered a name for that balance: femme sole, a woman alone in legal standing, bearer of both burden and advantage. A widow with territories across two realms invites a king’s attention. She answered with treasure rather than supplication. During October 1231 she approached the king with silver for judgment rather than tears for mercy, 700 marks for two prizes: seisin of her patrimony and freedom to choose her own marriage. That figure would clink through any hall. The Exchequer felt the weight, and royal writ answered with grace. By April 1233 the Justiciar in Ireland received order to deliver her lands. She stood with the authority of a magnate and directed her affairs with the steadiness of a steward born to the craft.
- [Forest Linecraft: Field Archery by Ear and Eye](https://tifam.ie/forest-linecraft-field-archery-by-ear-and-eye/) - A field course in Ireland carries its own weather with a pulse that travels through boots and bone. Moss feeds stone, wet fern lifts the air, and the path to each peg breathes peat and birdsong. The target waits amid alder and furze like a small moon, pale and sure, and the bow answers with old memory held in the limbs. Every lane whispers a fresh set of laws. Curiosity greets those laws and draws a richer circle with every arrow. A course turns into an instrument, and the archer learns to play it by ear, tuning the shot to the forest’s metre. You hear the stream keep time. You feel the breeze pluck the string. You see light change distance. The ground shapes stance and stance shapes thought, and the whole enterprise gathers a music that rewards patience, craft, and that stubborn Irish delight in hard work done with a grin. Slope begins the learning. Uphill invites a ribcage that rises and a pelvis that settles so the spine grows long and the shoulders level. Downhill invites knees that soften and heels that claim the earth so the line from back heel to drawing elbow stays true. Hips and shoulders form a steady gate for power to pass through, and that gate grants the draw a clean corridor. Feet choose ground with care: a forefoot that finds purchase on wet root, a mid-foot that rests on shale, a heel that holds on clay. A quiet triangle forms between both feet and the aim, a geometry that steadies breath. Ireland’s banks and ridges reward ankles that sing through the arches. An archer who trusts that song carries balance uphill and down, across boggy patches and shale scars, with the bow sitting easy and the head afloat, alert and glad. Light writes grammar across distance. Shade compresses space inside a green tunnel; pale foam gathers a halo that stretches the path to the rings; dapple scatters attention like coins. The eye reads edges with greatest ease when a soft glow gathers around a hard line, so a tiny ritual helps. Blink once, glance beyond the lane to a patch of untroubled colour, return to the centre, breathe, and allow the sight ring—or the inner circle of intent—to frame the mark. Vision gathers to a needlepoint again. Field lanes often deliver a trick of magnification when the trees pinch perspective; a deliberate breath resets scale. Recurve and barebow minds favour the memory of a circle; compound minds favour pin, peep, and bubble in gentle accord. Each approach earns clarity through that small ceremony of attention, carried peg to peg like a blessing.
- [TIFAM issue 45 PDF](https://tifam.ie/tifam-issue-45-pdf/) - TIFAM 45 by TIFAM Company Limited by Guarantee
- [Editor's Note for TIFAM issue 45](https://tifam.ie/editors-note-tifam-45/) - This issue finds us in a changed season. A quietness hangs in the air, a space shaped by the memory of George Shields and the enduring grace of Joan Kennedy-Kelly. We carry their presence still—a warmth that gathers near the fire, a known rhythm on the line where a voice once rose and now invites
- [An Unnatural History of the Bow: Trivia for the Terminally Curious Archer](https://tifam.ie/an-unnatural-history-of-the-bow-trivia-for-the-terminally-curious-archer/) - We like our archers graceful, all clean lines and poised stillness. We imagine a certain elegant geometry of the human form, a partnership between body and bow. History, however, keeps its own accounts, and they tell a story etched in warped bone and strained sinew. The body of the true war archer was a thing remade, a specialised engine of violence. Skeletons recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose and other medieval sites show us the truth: men with thickened left arms, distorted spines, and grotesquely enlarged joints around the left wrist, left shoulder, and right hand. This is the physical receipt for a lifetime of devotion, a process begun in childhood, with boys as young as seven learning to pull the string. They were training to master a beast. The draw weights of English war bows were immense, starting around 90 pounds-force and soaring to a staggering 160 or even 180 lbf. This is a force that few modern men could command once, let alone for the duration of a battle. The technique itself was a full-body agony. The 16th-century bishop Hugh Latimer described how an English archer “laid his body in the bow,” a visceral image of a man pressing his entire weight into the stave, a human press converting flesh and bone into projectile energy. This was the price of admission to the world’s most devastating ranged infantry. The archer’s body became a living testament to the bow’s demands, a beautiful and terrible asymmetry. The true, unvarnished history of our craft is a story written in this strange ink of sinew, bone, and poison; enforced by absurd laws; and etched into the very skeletons of its masters. It is a history of humanity’s darkest and most brilliant impulses, all converging on a single, pointed end.
- [Men of Forlorn Hope](https://tifam.ie/men-of-forlorn-hope/) - The Lisowczyks formed as a fierce body of Polish light cavalry, carrying the wild spirit of a mercenary host sustained through spoils of conquest. Brought together in 1607 as a soldierly confederation under the command of Aleksander Józef Lisowski, they drew their name from his—his legacy shaping their banner long after his death. Their allegiance lay with the Commonwealth, though coin never reached their hands; sustenance came through spoils alone. They struck into towns and villages across enemy lands, tearing through stone and spirit alike, burning, seizing, and destroying with furious purpose. Churches and monasteries yielded no sanctuary. Their passage carved terror into the lives of the innocent. In the Czech lands, long after the company ceased, mothers carried tales of Lisowszczyks to frighten children into obedience, casting them as creatures of fire and blood, unmatched in malice. Their vanishing defied a single date—by the mid-1620s, they drifted from the field, their once-unique imprint fading into the broader chaos of war. In form and function, the Lisowczyks mirrored the shape of Polish cavalry from their day. Each unit bore the name of a banner, often numbering between one hundred and four hundred men. These banners gathered comrades—bannermen—and footsoldiers alike. Alongside them rode unattached servants, who, though second in status, frequently joined the fight. Yet a crucial difference marked them from the Polish standard: the Lisowczyks chose their own colonels from within their ranks. They surged through Europe as the swiftest warriors of their time, rivalled only by the relentless Tartars. In one stretch of daylight, they could cover one hundred and sixty kilometres—four times the range of the most agile forces of the age.
- [War of the Feathers Part 7](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-7/) - V It was too warm for Evander, the searing aftershock of heat from the exertion of battle engulfing him. “That’s a deep wound, I’d say,” Xiphos stated quietly, feline blood still glistening upon his armour. They stood before the slain God-Head, a broken shadow of its former majesty, dead on its back. Its talons were
- [War of the Feathers Part 8](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-8/) - XIII Arrows whipped through the air. Maytoni soldiers along the north wall fell with cries of a new attack ringing out. Sharp whisps burned through the air, those not stopped by soldiers on the wall arcing down into the north field and striking down line archers. Sheilds went up to cover the line archers, each
- [War of the Feathers - Epilogue](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-epilogue/) - Even caked in dirt and gore, Evander Penrose held a fierce stalwartness. It was something sharp, striking in its vividness, like lightning breaking out from the grasping currents of darkness, thought Mercy as she watched him. The so-called demigod sat, propped up by a heap of Xellcarrian bodies, legs stretched out with her heels set
- [The Weight of Proximity: On Presence, Flesh, and Vanishing](https://tifam.ie/the-weight-of-proximity-on-presence-flesh-and-vanishing/) - This piece stands as the third in a quiet unfolding—a sequence of essays sparked by our recent gathering in the New Ross Library, where voices met to trace the long memory of the bow. The first emerged from our reflections on the remarkable women archers of 19th-century Ireland, those figures who carried both grace and
- [A Hunger for the Old Aim](https://tifam.ie/a-hunger-for-the-old-aim/) - A hush settles in, a quiet breath drifting through the vast expectant cinema as the first glint of dawn appears on screen and paints Panem in a fresh, solemn glow. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping unfolds with solemn grandeur, a living weave of memory, grief, and enduring human spirit. It delivers a cinematic
- [The Butcher's Bill at Evesham](https://tifam.ie/the-butchers-bill-at-evesham/) - There are stories that feel true because we want them to be. Stories of a clean end, a single, meaningful moment that cuts a life’s thread. A hero stands against the odds, and a fatal, well-aimed arrow finds him. It’s a poet’s death. It is a death that makes sense. And so, we come to
- [War of the Feathers Part 6](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-6/) - Day 3 I It was painful to comprehend, a tight knot stuck in General Aedion Teague’s sternum, but here he was, still incamped on the northern most part of the Mayne Peninsula on what had just become the third day of the battle. Worse, bearing the caustic shame of a decimated army and the loss
- [A Report From Ukraine Through the Archer’s Eye](https://tifam.ie/a-report-from-ukraine-through-the-archers-eye/) - I have a friend from Kyiv who is an archer. She and I met in China during an archery event there back in 2018. She was part of a Ukrainian team of five, and the Irish team of five, of which I was a part, got on really well with them. She had herself visited
- [An Arrow's Moral Geometry](https://tifam.ie/an-arrows-moral-geometry/) - A single arrow, loosed beneath a moonless sky, carves a new reality from a father’s certainty, flinging it toward the unknown. 28 Years Later greets its audience with a scream: a fractured symphony of instinct and intention, of despair and rebirth. The film unfolds within the hollow of a skull—vast echoes, free-floating memory, a relentless
- [Andrew's 20 Questions #31 Emlyn Phipps](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-31-emlyn-phipps/) - Hey there Emlyn and thanks for agreeing to do this interview and I have to say with great enthusiasm, as you’ve been the quickest to respond which is great and I know we have a lot in common and so I am really looking forward to learning more about what makes you tick! Okay we
- [Blackbird column](https://tifam.ie/blackbird-column-3/) - Hello my archery fanatics and those among you, young bloods and not so young, who indulge in this inexplicable obsession that is simply Archery 😀😃. I hope you are all well and if not… well, I wish you well. Enough of that tongue-twister senseless jibber-jabber. I write now in this calm before the storm that
- [The Aim of Being: Women's Archery in Ireland hundred years ago and earlier](https://tifam.ie/the-aim-of-being-womens-archery-in-ireland-hundred-years-ago-and-earlier/) - “The qualities which make a good archer are the qualities which make a good man or woman,” wrote the Honourable Artillery Company’s H. Walrond in his 1894 Archery for Beginners. While penned across the water, the sentiment found its most profound and complex incarnation on the archery fields of late colonial Ireland. Here, amidst the
- [Empowering Women through Archery: A Journey of Passion, Perseverance, and Pride.](https://tifam.ie/empowering-women-through-archery-a-journey-of-passion-perseverance-and-pride/) - Archer Margaret Donnelly gives us a sporting insight into the life of her Dunbrody club mate and WBHC 2025 Bronze medallist Catherine Power From: The Rower Co. Kilkenny Club: Dunbrody Archers Shooting style: Bowhunter Recurve World Bowhunter Championships 2025 South Africa. Discovering Archery: From Family Support to Personal Passion At the heart of many sporting
- [The Vanishing Archery Of Emerald Isle](https://tifam.ie/the-vanishing-archery-of-emerald-isle/) - It started with a slip of the tongue, as the most troublesome truths often do. Myself and Andrew Wayland, we were in the main hall of the New Ross Library, the air thick with that familiar scent of paper and ink, talking about the marvels of Grotte Mandrin in France—a place where the story of
- [The Lions' Den](https://tifam.ie/the-lions-den/) - A concise write up of the Portsmouth Round hosted by Muckamore Company of Archers on the 27th of October with a look at archery from an autistic perspective.
- [Colum Cille 3D 2025](https://tifam.ie/colum-cille-3d-2025/) - I was excited to be back at Ballywalter for a couple of reasons, one of which was because of the new species of pheasant introduced to the estate. This species is known as Reeve’s Pheasant and comes from China. And I am sure you are looking for the photos of them, but sadly they appear
- [The Code Beneath the Grip](https://tifam.ie/the-code-beneath-the-grip/) - (AI and the Emergent Ritual of Archery in the Age of Symbiotic Agency) Matter and mind meet wherever a purpose touches a tool. Sensation flows outward through crafted form, and the world responds with patterns the nerves accept as their own. Every gesture grounds thought; every artefact folds fresh ranges of sense into the field
- [War Without Footsteps](https://tifam.ie/war-without-footsteps/) - Well now, dear readers—today I bring you something a touch off the beaten path. I’d been deep in the bones of a forthcoming book of essays when a strange thing happened: a piece arrived, unbidden, that took even me by surprise. Not in its reflection—we all carry thoughts on every matter under the sun, that’s
- [War of the Feathers - Part 5](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-5/) - X It was too much to hope that the Xellcarrians would have let them have the rest of the afternoon, Evander lamented. Then again, there was more desperation behind them than General Aedion had let on. On the horizon, like a gently rising tide, rose gleaming lines of platinum coloured armour, marching into position. With
- [conor’s Epic charity voyage!!!](https://tifam.ie/conors-epic-charity-voyage/) - It was a very noble challenge and an epic journey where the popular (Donegal Archer) Conor O’ Connor aimed to raise €5000 or more for Solace Cancer Care Donegal. The challenge was to canoe from Ballyshannon County Donegal to Ballyhack County Wexford, camping along the way, and this journey of almost 500 kilometres (480 to
- [Between Bow and Being: Plato, Aristotle, and the Archer’s Path](https://tifam.ie/between-bow-and-being-plato-aristotle-and-the-archers-path/) - " There is no fault nor detriment / in facing bare the cruelty of world..." — We’ll Go Asleep Imagine, now, not just a tool or a sport, but a whisper that’s survived since we first dared to shape the world with our hands: archery. It doesn’t shout its purpose. It waits. And in the
- [When the French came to town...](https://tifam.ie/when-the-french-came-to-town/) - 29th April saw a contingent of six archers from The Les Archers Béarnais club in France travel to Ireland for a whistle-stop archery tour of the South East. By saying it was a whistle-stop tour, I mean over the course of their brief visit of four days, they based themselves around the New Ross area
- [This Whisper Of Cobwebs...](https://tifam.ie/this-whisper-of-cobwebs/) - Hello Crackers, my friends and Archery fans, are you all good? I hope so, I truly do, and I have some good news for myself—yes I do—as I have managed to book my place at the national champs in Dunbrody, whoop whoop. Now I can understand the reasoning behind this online buy-your-spot behavior when it
- [Lion, Bolt, Torn Scroll](https://tifam.ie/lion-bolt-torn-scroll/) - The last winds of March in the year of 1199 must have stirred through the valleys of Limousin with no particular burden, no whisper of what tremor would so soon ripple out across the aching spine of the Angevin world. That tremor did not rise from the golden lips of Innocent III, nor from the
- [An Arrow for the Earl](https://tifam.ie/an-arrow-for-the-earl/) - strange heat it was, the summer of 1399. The kind of heat that presses down on the land and makes the air thick with waiting. You could feel it in the quiet of the fields and the low murmur of men in taverns. A kingdom was holding its breath, waiting for a storm to break.
- [War of the Feathers - Part 4](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-4/) - V It was the same horse that had thrown Evander from its saddle not long ago. But that hardly mattered to him as he spurred it on, past the dead splayed across the battlefield, after the rider. He didn’t need to ask what the rider was up to. Evander had a clear, dreadful idea. Thankfully
- [War of the Feathers - Part 3](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-3/) - Day 2 I It had been too long a night. For General Casey Aiza his restlessness was now searing into something more tangible, a solid force he could finally apply. Still, it was bittersweet in a way. Since he was sixteen, Casey had been serving with the full might of his will, and lost count
- [Show of Power](https://tifam.ie/show-of-power/) - The forth in a series of short stories about The Archery Guild and its members, set in a fantasy world, known as Anordaithe. For those reading The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy in our magazine, a couple of names will be familiar here.
- [Bluebell Shoot 2025](https://tifam.ie/bluebell-shoot-2025/) - It is now summer, which in Ireland means the weather likes to behave in more of a bipolar manner. Summer in Ireland is different from the other two seasons – I’m convinced we don’t really get Spring, just a mildish end to Winter – in that it moves away from consistent dull, wet, or cold
- [The Wounds That Never Heal](https://tifam.ie/the-wounds-that-never-heal/) - A meditation on hurt, ritual, and the intimate violence of archery "Then the English archers stept forth one pace and let fly their arrows so wholly [together] and so thick, that it seemed snow. When the Genoways felt the arrows piercing through heads, arms, and breasts, many of them cast down their crossbows and did
- [War of the Feathers - Part 2](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-2/) - IV “I always wanted to do a landscape of the Mayne Lighthouse,” Ebrill said, relief in her voice as they clattered down the steps of the lighthouse’s base into the refreshingly cool, salty air. Evander enjoyed the taste and smell of the air by the coast and on the peninsula. Despite current affairs, he was
- [The Reapers Are the Angels: What If?](https://tifam.ie/the-reapers-are-the-angels-what-if/) - "You walk and you walk and you carry what you can and you leave the rest behind." It stays with you, that line, doesn’t it? Like the feel of a worn stone in your pocket, or the ache in your feet after a long journey. It’s just words on a page from Alden Bell’s The
- [Between War and Wonder](https://tifam.ie/between-war-and-wonder/) - "I do not fight because I seek glory. I fight because I must protect what is mine."— Tigrevurmud Vorn, Lord Marksman and Vanadis There’s something curious about the quiet books that stick. They arrive without noise, sit down across from you like someone familiar, and by the time they’ve finished their story, you find yourself
- [The Guild and the Crown](https://tifam.ie/the-guild-and-the-crown/) - In the hush between the tolling of bells and the hiss of the string, something else stirred in the guildhalls of medieval Flanders and England—something older than the arrows they notched and swifter than the oaths they swore. While the chroniclers penned neat lines of history, bound in ink and ignorance, there grew beneath the
- [The Case for Greater Archery](https://tifam.ie/the-case-for-greater-archery/) - This is an updated version of an article I published a few years ago, about how badly the Olympics and World Archery need to diversify the representation of shooting styles. Given the inclusion of compound, I felt it was appropriate to not only republish it but update it too.
- [Archers Of Ennis (Onwards and upwards)](https://tifam.ie/archers-of-ennis-onwards-and-upwards/) - Introduction - who we are... We are a dedicated community built on shared passion, friendly competition, and a genuine love for the art of archery - Archers of Ennis isn’t just a place to hone our skills. It’s become the cornerstone of the sport in County Clare, where beginners, seasoned competitors, and everyone in between
- [The tyrany of Coaching](https://tifam.ie/the-tyrany-of-coaching/) - Well archers, readers, today we embark on a journey of what if... It’s a heretical endeavour, filled with blasphemy and a provocation calculated—yes, calculated—to infuriate you. This is not a careless insult nor a drunken rant penned between ends. No, this wound is opened with precision, like a surgeon of heresies who knows exactly where
- [Rituals of the Unseen](https://tifam.ie/rituals-of-the-unseen/) - There are mornings when the world feels like a screen that forgot to sleep—flickering, expectant, always asking. In such light, where every silence must be earned and every stillness risks interruption, the soul reaches for older shapes. Not solutions. Not ease. But shape. A contour to suffering. A ceremony for longing. Something that feels like
- [Where the Paper Cuts Deeper: A Return to Clonkeen Woods](https://tifam.ie/where-the-paper-cuts-deeper-a-return-to-clonkeen-woods/) - Portlaoise carries its soul just beneath the hedgerows, where boots sink slightly and tree roots knot like old thoughts. And tucked within that pulse, in Clonkeen Woods – where the canopy breaks into mottled shadow and the light stammers across bark and branch – something stirred again last weekend. Not a reawakening, no; that would
- [War of the Feathers - Part I](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers-part-i/) - The beginning of a war, the arrows of one nation against the griffin worshiping ideology of another nation. Following on from the prologue published last month, Evander Penrose must endure against the surrealist nature of this conflict and build a defence to repel vast odds.
- [The Bow Remembers: On the Ethics of Recoil](https://tifam.ie/the-bow-remembers-on-the-ethics-of-recoil/) - The essay that follows—perhaps a touch long for an online piece—is, in truth, a chapter from The Arrow Knows No Master, a book I’ve been quietly shaping since February of last year. It’s composed of individual essays—mostly reflective, occasionally philosophical—on archery as more than practice: on the strange, intimate calling of being an archer. One
- [Charles the Bold and the Gamble of Archers](https://tifam.ie/charles-the-bold-and-the-gamble-of-archers/) - I came across him not in a book, but in a footnote misquoted in the margin of another. It was a binding so cracked it seemed to wheeze when opened, part of a bundle I'd been lent by a Flemish historian who swore the best stories hide in the misfiled. He wasn’t wrong. We were
- [No Comfort Zone For Next 24 Targets](https://tifam.ie/no-comfort-zone-for-next-24-targets/) - As the fictious, famed Chaos Theorist and open shirt enthusiast, Dr Ian Malcom, once said, "Hang on, this is going to be bad." 3D Archery is not like Field Archery, and very far removed from Target Archery. Each of the 24 targets is unique in itself, never mind its set up. First you have to
- [Page turner picks (Column)](https://tifam.ie/page-turner-picks-column/) - Making Wooden Arrows - A Master’s Guide By John Potter 2020 Edition/90 pages I believe the making of wooden arrows, and their pairing to the archer and the bow as one of the truest skills in archery. And sadly, one I know very little about. I bought this book to try to close that gap
- [Lesser things and trivia... (Column)](https://tifam.ie/lesser-things-and-trivia-column-2/) - The story I’m about to tell you is not one that fits neatly into the grand histories of kings and battles, nor does it appear in the sweeping narratives of medieval glory or tragedy. It is a whisper at the edge of the Hundred Years’ War, a flicker of something unresolved, something that history seems
- [How Archers go blind...](https://tifam.ie/how-archers-go-blind/) - They go blind, not suddenly, not dramatically, but like stone crumbling beneath ivy. A slow erosion hidden under the costume of stillness. Archers — who speak so often of form and silence, of the sacred breath before release — rarely speak of the blindness. Not the blindness of the body, but of the gaze. The
- [Blackbird Column](https://tifam.ie/blackbird-column-2/) - Hello Crackers, are you well? The year seems to be flying along briskly, leaving me more unorganised than usual, but here I am, straining the brain to write some words down to entertain. Easter is fast approaching also, so first things first—Happy Easter to you all, and go easy on them chocolate eggs; they are
- [Forever Drawn:A Day with the White Feather](https://tifam.ie/forever-drawna-day-with-the-white-feather/) - There’s a kind of hush in the troughlands of Fiorbhia Farm when the dew clings still to the grass, before the sun decides if it’ll bake or bless the day. And there I stood, half a ghost, half a child again, holding what might as well have been a myth made manifest — the White
- [A Bow Drawn Between Two Worlds](https://tifam.ie/a-bow-drawn-between-two-worlds/) - There are films that do not begin with a title screen. They begin with a feeling. A quietness. A scent. A strange shift in the weight of the moment that tells you—you’re no longer here. You’ve crossed into somewhere else. I remember sitting in the dark hall of the Soviet embassy, its heavy curtains drawn
- [Aleksander Wat and Japanese Archery](https://tifam.ie/aleksander-wat-and-japanese-archery/) - Japanese Archery By Aleksander Wat (in Marcin Malek poetical interpretation) 1The hand to the bowstring speaks:Bend to me, yield.The bowstring to the hand replies:Strike bold, be steeled.The bowstring whispers to the shaft:O arrow, flee!The arrow to the bowstring calls:Unshackle me!The arrow sings unto the mark:Burn, beacon bright!The target murmurs, soft and dark:Love me, mid-flight. 2The
- [The Limits of Precision: How Much Tuning Does an Archer Really Need?](https://tifam.ie/the-limits-of-precision-how-much-tuning-does-an-archer-really-need/) - Precision has long been the archer’s silent companion, lingering in the spaces between breath and release. The draw is steady, the fingers poised on the string, the arrow ready to carve its path through the air. And yet, as much as we strive for mastery, the question remains—how much of our pursuit of tuning is
- [Germany at Full Draw](https://tifam.ie/germany-at-full-draw/) - There is a moment before the shot, when the world folds into silence, taut as the string between limb and nock. It is not hesitation. It is not doubt. It is the brief, unbearable stillness before intent becomes action, before thought is given force, before inevitability is loosed into the world. In that moment, nothing
- [The Forgotten Bastion: Jean de Brosse and the Silence of History](https://tifam.ie/the-forgotten-bastion-jean-de-brosse-and-the-silence-of-history/) - I don’t remember when exactly. Could’ve been Lyon. Or Toulouse. Maybe Montpellier. It hardly matters now, except for the sound of rain. A persistent, whispering sort, seeping into the bones of an evening too worn to protest. I had been wandering, as I often did, through half-lit bookshops, through stalls cluttered with old paper and
- [Arrows Across the 38th Parallel](https://tifam.ie/arrows-across-the-38th-parallel/) - There are places where history does not settle, where time folds in on itself, leaving wounds that never scar over. Korea is such a place. A land split not by nature, nor by the will of its people, but by a line drawn in haste, cutting through mountains and rivers, through families and fates. Some
- [Phantoms Draw, Shadows Release](https://tifam.ie/phantoms-draw-shadows-release/) - The world I grew up in was not built for dreaming. It was a place of long queues and short tempers, where the winters stretched on like unfinished sentences, and the summers were brief, almost apologetic interruptions of heat and dust. The Soviet Union did not care for fairy tales, not really. It had its
- [War of the Feathers](https://tifam.ie/war-of-the-feathers/) - When a holy beast is slain by a rogue and so-called Maytoni prince retribution comes fast for the Maytoni nation. Their neighbours, the Xellcarrians, once bonded allies, are seeking blood as recompense. Royalism is akin to heresy within Maytoni, going against their values of equality and equity - but this hardly stops families with bloodlines rooted in lost riches and prestige. As the prelude to total war plays out on the Mayne Peninsula, Evander Penrose of the Maytoni Summiteers, elite archers, finds himself in unofficial command. He understands the contrived origins of the conflict, and wants the so-called prince handed over. Yet with the preparator in flight, and thirty thousand Xellcarrians on the horizon, Evander must hold off annexation, against six to one odds, whilst doing everything he can to prevent further escalation. Yet the Xellcarrians are not his true enemy, as the Maytoni pro-royalist elements seek to ensure bloody total war erupts to ensure the resurgence of their own power. For anyone who has read The Phoenix Archer, the name Evander Penrose and the War of the Feathers will be recognisable. This is his story about a defining event which has a profound effect on his character in The Phoenix Archer follow up, Orion's Legacy.
- [Curwood and May: The Worlds They Wrote](https://tifam.ie/curwood-and-may-the-worlds-they-wrote/) - There’s a weight to words when they are written by those who have never touched the landscapes they paint, yet summon them with such clarity you’d swear they had walked the paths themselves. Karl May never set foot in the America of his stories, but his visions of the West, of noble warriors and boundless
- [Ishi The Last of The Yashi...](https://tifam.ie/ishi-the-last-of-the-yashi/) - It’s a strange thing, to draw a bow and feel the pull of something older than time itself—a quiet understanding between hand, string, and arrow. I think about that often, about how archery is less about hitting a target than it is about listening. Listening to the breath before release, to the whisper of wood
- [The Archer’s Guide to the Unspoken Essentials](https://tifam.ie/the-archers-guide-to-the-unspoken-essentials/) - The wind came from the west, carrying with it the ghost of winter—damp, cold, full of the smell of leaf rot and something older, something that lingers in the hedgerows before the blackthorn blooms. I stood at the edge of the field, bow in hand, and watched the sky shift between defiance and surrender. It
- [Andrew's 20 Questions #27 John Playdon](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-27-john-playdon/) - Hello John, welcome to this interview process and I am thankful to you for doing this as these interviews are becoming more and more popular for our readers.You always look cool with bow in hand, the shades if its sunny, neat - well fitted clothing and organised equipment so I wonder are you a bit
- [Click, Stabilize, Obey: The Rise of the Machine-Archer](https://tifam.ie/click-stabilize-obey-the-rise-of-the-machine-archer/) - Smack My Controversy column Back in the day, the archer was alone with his bow (it was an intimate relationship) between the man and his tool, the same sheer connection bound him to his quiver of arrows and the importance of his own skill. No clickers telling whether or not to shoot, no stabilisers controlling
- [Blackbird Column](https://tifam.ie/blackbird-column/) - Hello, Crackers and Archery enthusiasts! I hope you are well. So, did any of you get to the Setu Arena for the recent IFAF National Indoor Championships..?I was there, and I must say that it was awesome and a great success. The competition seemed more intense than last year. My only regret was not taking
- [The Arrows That Sang Against Steel: The Spanish Conquest and the Vanishing Echo of Indigenous Archery](https://tifam.ie/the-arrows-that-sang-against-steel-the-spanish-conquest-and-the-vanishing-echo-of-indigenous-archery/) - You never forget the first book that cuts you. The one that leaves a wound, not in flesh, but in the quiet, unguarded place where thoughts sleep before they wake to meaning. Mine was a battered volume on the The History of the Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, thrust into my
- [A Window and a Mirror](https://tifam.ie/a-window-and-a-mirror/) - There was a time when the world was easier to understand. When the grainy flicker of Soviet cinema could paint the world not as it was, but as it ought to be. And in those darkened halls, amid the scratchy rustle of winter coats and the faint scent of damp wool, I found my first
- [DWild Sinusoid Limbs](https://tifam.ie/dwild-sinusoid-limbs/) - Sinusoid limbs are multi-cam patented limbs by Davide Vicini from Genoa in Italy. Davide worked for many years as a naval carpenter, where he learnt about the different characteristics of various woods, fibreglass and carbon. This coupled with the fact that he is an award winning archer (Multiple Italian championships and European titles) means he
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Leeanne Halliday](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-leeanne-halliday/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
- [Autism in Archery - Jessica Burcow](https://tifam.ie/autism-in-archery-jessica-burcow/) - Welcome to a new series where I interview autistic archers about our experiences within archery. The goal here is to better inform people of our condition and needs within the sport. Furthermore, there will find plenty for those of us with autism to relate to I am sure, and perhaps even a means to express
- [A Bow Drawn Against the Wind – Akira Kurosawa and his vision of men](https://tifam.ie/a-bow-drawn-against-the-wind-akira-kurosawa-and-his-vision-of-men/) - Stories are not told. They are loosed, like arrows from a drawn bow, their fletching kissed by breath, their paths uncertain yet inevitable. A storyteller does not own the tale—he only pulls the string, lets it fly, watches it carve its arc through the air. And there is no storyteller who understood this better than
- [Erased by Fire and Time](https://tifam.ie/erased-by-fire-and-time/) - The first thing they saw was the light. It came from the sea, from beyond the edges of the world they had known, a gleam upon the water like the sun’s fractured reflection. Then the ships, too vast to be canoes, their ribs black against the sky, swayed upon the waves as though they were
- [The Fever That Dwells in Men](https://tifam.ie/the-fever-that-dwells-in-men/) - Have you heard of a madness that does not burn with fire but seeps like a disease, making bones feverish and bending the mind to its will? It does not speak, it does not sing, it does not threaten, but it sparkles, bewitching with its unique bile, with the flickering of something elusive, something that
- [Vengeance Wears a Mask](https://tifam.ie/vengeance-wears-a-mask/) - The fog drapes itself over the city like an old habit, curling around the silent bones of forgotten histories. The Green Archer (1961) lurks in my mind much the same way—a shadow flickering in the recesses of memory, half-formed yet full of presence. A film that never roared but whispered, a pulp relic steeped in
- [The Shadow of Arrows: Thomas de Montagu and the Longbowmen of the Hundred Years’ War.](https://tifam.ie/the-shadow-of-arrows-thomas-de-montagu-and-the-longbowmen-of-the-hundred-years-war/) - At times, especially within historical investigations, things become fleeting and elusive. The past ceases to be a fragile record and becomes the superficial memory of a chronicler. However, there are moments when it stirs, gathering a strange, electric energy, and suddenly breathes anew. The dead are brought back to life, then they cross our path
- [Mercy](https://tifam.ie/mercy/) - The sixth in a series of short stories about The Archery Guild and its members, set in a fantasy world, known as Anordaithe. Here you are finally introduced to a mythical figure only spoken about thus far in the pages of The Phoenix Archer.
- [From Ancient Bows to Soviet Arrows: Archery in Russian and Soviet Literature](https://tifam.ie/from-ancient-bows-to-soviet-arrows-archery-in-russian-and-soviet-literature/) - I grew up amongst books, although never knowing for sure whether it was a blessing or a burden. In those days, you didn’t choose what you read. You took what was given, what was printed, what had survived the censors, the years, the hands of older brothers and cousins who had passed their battered copies
- [James Byrne column](https://tifam.ie/james-byrne-column/) - Hello Crackers, are you good?So, I briefly spoke on the Blackbird Podcast recently about venturing up to Strongbow Archers Club in order to take part in the Level 1 Instructor course. Myself and Felim Canty of RedFox Archers were among the 14 or 15 archers that were taking part on the day. One of the
- [The Wild Hunt (when gods tinning the veil between the realms)](https://tifam.ie/the-wild-hunt-when-gods-tinning-the-veil-between-the-realms/) - This pursuit encapsulates a thorough exploration of the portrayal of "The Wild Hunt" within the realms of literature, music, and poetry. Consequently, it aligns more with the field of literary studies rather than the confines of a piece suitable for a casual archery magazine. Nevertheless, due to the inherent nature and subject of the myth
- [Archery in Video Games Part 4 - Skyrim](https://tifam.ie/archery-in-video-games-part-4-skyrim/) - By Matt Latimer What do you suppose the Ulster-Scots for dragon would be? At the risk of my ancestors haunting me, I'm going venture, Quare Beece Burd. I'm confident the word quare would be a part of it. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was first released in 2011 by Bethesda Softworks, and was huge at
- [Archery - a social game par excellence](https://tifam.ie/archery-a-social-game-par-excellence/) - Imagine if archery were less about the simple act of flinging feathered shafts at bullseyes and more akin to joining a secret society where the handshake is replaced with a perfectly executed anchor point. This isn't your run-of-the-mill weekend hobby; it's a clandestine rendezvous with history, a mental duel against the self, all wrapped in
- [Arrows and Epics: A Day of Archery Mastery at Mayo Archery Club](https://tifam.ie/hello-world/) - On a brisk Sunday morning, the fourteenth of April 2024, a quaint assembly was marked by the biannual archery competition hosted by the Mayo Archery Club, familiarly known as MAC. This notable event, named the 50x3D, heralded archers from every corner of Ireland, drawn not only by the competition but also by the rich medley of camaraderie and tradition that the event stitches year upon year. This particular visit was graced by the presence of my young son, Jan, whose five-year-old enthusiasm added a fresh lens to my seasoned spectacles.
- [It serves you right!](https://tifam.ie/it-serves-you-right/) - Hello and welcome back, fellow archers and enthusiasts! Despite the never-ending challenges we face, our passion for archery keeps us together, and we've got each other's backs through it all. As we gear up for what promises to be an action-packed summer, let's dive into a review of some of the most popular serving tools
- [The Homeric Landscape: Unfurling the Spectrum of the Odyssean Quest through Archery](https://tifam.ie/the-homeric-landscape-unfurling-the-spectrum-of-the-odyssean-quest-through-archery/) - By Marcin Malek Amid the swirling eddies of ancient epic and brisk modern sensibility, the legend of Odysseus, our perennial navigator through the tempestuous seas of fate and time, shines forth as a beacon of cosmic order, much like a stout lighthouse beams through the murky night upon the ever-churning ocean. We embark upon a
- [A student of the art](https://tifam.ie/a-student-of-the-art-2/) - On Jorge L. Coppen "Bear Archery Traditional Bows – A Chronological History (1949-2015)" I recognise and praise them for putting themselves out there for criticism but thank them for passing on their knowledge and helping others. When it comes to reviewing the books, I do so based of my own opinions and thoughts. I want
- [Longbow Addiction: A journey into archery, by doing it the hard way](https://tifam.ie/longbow-addiction-a-journey-into-archery-by-doing-it-the-hard-way/) - By Roger Marsh I took up the sport of archery eight years ago, at a time when two of my sons were becoming intrigued by the sport. However, I did not dedicate serious time to learning the skills until 2019, as I was in the process of leaving the Australian Army. We had a lot
- [The Dance of the Manes](https://tifam.ie/the-dance-of-the-manes/) - This article under the same title is available as an audio podcast, available at Spotifiy and YouTube:"The Dance of the Manes" at Spotify "The Dance of the Manes" at YouTube By Marcin Malek Welcome everyone to another episode of Winning Paths. Let me guide you through a reality so different, so alien to us that
- [The Ghosts of Mary Rose](https://tifam.ie/the-ghosts-of-marry-rose/) - * Rising, Sinking and Resurrection * By Marcin Malek This is a revised and expanded edition of an article of the same title published in the 14th issue of TIFAM, December 2022 Also available as an audio Podcast on YouTube Greetings, Archers and Readers, and welcome to another thrilling episode of "Winning Path," where we
- [Field Archery and The Natural World](https://tifam.ie/field-archery-and-the-natural-world/) - Some art works to reflect the natural world of field archery.
- [Archery, movement, and mental health](https://tifam.ie/archery-movement-and-mental-health/) - By Roger Marsh Once again we have the pleasure of Roger Marsh joining us to share his archery journey. This month the topic I’m sure, is something that will resonate with nearly all of us. That Roger is penning this too from Australia shows how much in common as an archery community we have with
- [Horus: The Divine Archer](https://tifam.ie/horus-the-divine-archer/) - By Marin Smallridge Also available as a Winning Paths Podcast episode "Straight be your arrows, Horus, your heart unstained." If nothing else, it's a way of saying the same thing—in ancient Egyptian lingo—about Horus, god of Egypt and divine archer, having a falcon-headed face that greets you from a thousand temple walls, standing head and
- [Bullseye My Gob!: An Archery Ramble Through History, Hilarity, and Humbug](https://tifam.ie/bullseye-my-gob/) - Indeed, the dance of an arrow as it traverses the distant of 'from - to', may seem oddly bizarre. A fleeting moment of grace, a trajectory that defies gravity, a vibrant intention and surrender. A paradox, like life itself, isn't it? Aim too hard and you miss the target. Let loose and the arrow finds
- [Archery needs the community an Interview with Raymond Huang](https://tifam.ie/archery-needs-the-community-an-interview-with-raymond-huang/) - Once again readers we have the pleasure of sharing the story of an archers’ journey with you. This time, we are joined by the winner of the 2024 Lancaster Classic, Mr. Raymond Huang. I have listened to this interview twice, available on the TIFAM podcast, Winning Paths. Now, I could try and be descriptive here
- [Bill Stewart Multi-cam Recurve Bow Review](https://tifam.ie/bill-stewart-multi-cam-recurve-bow-review/) - History Bill Stewart who is often referred to as the unknown bowyer and has worked for many of the great well known bowyers such as Fred Bear, Damon Howatt and Bob Lee amongst others. He is the one who worked behind the scenes to innovate, engineer and redesign the bow manufacturing processes of today. In
- [Dunbrody 100 3D - Echoes of Valor](https://tifam.ie/dunbrody-100-3d-echoes-of-valor/) - By Marcin Malek The first day of the Dunbrody 100 3D began under the whispering canopy of dawn, with a morning briefing attended by 132 eager participants. As the golden rays of the sun filtered through the ancient trees, casting a mosaic of light and shadow on the ground, a palpable sense of anticipation filled
- [2nd TIFAM All Ireland Archery Festival: A Weekend of Arrows, Adventure, and Archery Community](https://tifam.ie/2nd-taiaf/) - As the first hints of autumn begin to color the Irish landscape, a unique and thrilling event draws archers and enthusiasts from across the country to the scenic surroundings near Thurles, along the R498 road. The 2nd TIFAM All Ireland Archery Festival, scheduled for September 7-8, 2024, promises an unforgettable weekend brimming with archery challenges,
- [2nd TIFAM All Ireland Archery Festival](https://tifam.ie/2nd-tifam-all-ireland-archery-festival/) - & Sunday Black Castle UAR shoot (A weekend of fun in Thurles) Andrews account... A fun weekend in the woods outside Thurles in the home of Black Castle Archers. The majority of the festival photos included in this issue were taken by the TIFAM crew of Matt, Chris and Andrew. The weather was very suitable
- [Archery Ireland National Field Championship 2024 Field Report](https://tifam.ie/ai-field-champs-report/) - On a very sunny Saturday the 7th of September, archers descended on the majestic Drewstown house and surrounding grounds for the annual National Field championships. It had been several decades since the Archery Ireland field championship had last been in Drewstown and we were blessed with two days of exceptional weather. The field championships consist
- [Lesser things and trivia...](https://tifam.ie/spectral-archers-of-ireland-and-scotland/) - “Old stories endure, even as the world changes’”. This is the tale of the Phantom Archer of Dunluce. As they say, the legend is deeply rooted in the castle's history and has been passed down from generation to generation. The ruins of Dunluce Castle stand among the windswept cliffs of Antrim and are a reminder of human ambition in the face of the power of nature.
- [Loch Riach ~ photostory ~](https://tifam.ie/loch-riach-photostory/) - Log Riach Traditional Archery Club: Located in the heart of nature, Log Riach Traditional Archery Club is a haven for archers who appreciate the traditional aspect of the sport. The club specializes in longbow and recurve archery, offering events that challenge archers in the most natural and scenic environments. If you’re passionate about field archery, you’ll find no better place to hone your skills and connect with like-minded enthusiasts. Ready to join the adventure? Visit Log Riach Traditional Archery Club’s official site here to learn more about upcoming events, membership, and how you can become part of this incredible archery community.
- [Killigarry shoot Photo-recap](https://tifam.ie/killigarry-shoot-photo-recap/) - Killygarry Archers, based at Pullamore Farm in Cavan, Ireland, is led by Sean Crow, a dedicated IFAF committee member, accomplished archer, and long-standing Irish representative at major international competitions. Sean’s leadership and charismatic community spirit have made the club a hub for archery enthusiasts. Known for organizing challenging yet thoroughly enjoyable traditional and field archery competitions, the club draws archers from all skill levels. With years of experience behind them,
- [Winning paths episode 40](https://tifam.ie/winning-paths-episode-40/) - Horseback Havoc: Sarmatian Archery They are a people who vanish like shadows, whose arrows strike before their forms are seen; the Sarmatians, riders of the endless winds.— Tacitus, Annals The Sarmatians, like whispers carried across the boundless steppes, traversed the vast expanses of Eurasia from the fifth century before our era into the dawn of
- [Quivers of Quirk: Archery's Oddballs and Arrow-Slinging Antics](https://tifam.ie/quivers-of-quirk-archerys-oddballs/) - The Robin Hood legends have cemented his place as a peerless marksman, but let's be real: nobody in any kind of serious competition these days tries the "split the arrow" stunt. Real archers know the stupidity of making them waste a perfectly good arrow. But it's a story that charms-to show, once again, that when it comes to archery, as with much in life, the question of branding is paramount.
- [NI Open and Field Championships 2024](https://tifam.ie/ni-open-and-field-championships-2024/) - Greenmount as a venue has an exceptional advantage over other venues. It is the grounds of an agricultural college, and there for something more than grounds for a nice walk. This course weaves what is a sculpted garden stroll in with the untouched creating a vivid contrast of sloping grass gardens and ivy consumed logs,
- [Lesser things and trivia...](https://tifam.ie/lesser-things-and-trivia/) - (A monthly column) The arrow, both ancient and resiliant, has for centuries represented more than ordinary blend of wood and steel. She is an instrument of swift death, and her silent flight often brings forth something beyond a simple ending, as she may carry the burden of betrayal, salvation, revenge or destiny itself. In literature
- [Smack my controversy...](https://tifam.ie/smack-my-controversy/) - (A monthly column) Good day, dear readers, in this issue I'm unabashedly bringing up the topic of sorts - which came first an egg or a chicken, or why the circle is round but not square. Hereby I would like to evoke an archer's paradox, so please do not be caught off guard, as it
- [An archer's spindle of literature](https://tifam.ie/an-archers-spindle-of-literature/) - (A monthly column) As someone who has invested a considerable portion of his life in studying literature and the elaborately oiled machinations at work in the construction of narratives, I am constitutionally fascinated by the representation of archery in canonical works. The bow and arrow are ancient implements, taken up by gods as well as
- [The Ballad of Yew](https://tifam.ie/the-ballad-of-yew/) - The ancient whisper from the heart of Ireland, the yew bow, sings a tune etched amongst the soft susurrations of leaves in the forgotten wood. A weapon, not truly; an amulet, a bridge into the Othercrowd, where the Sídhe people whirl around in moonlight revelry and the banshee wails her sad song. Deep in the
- [Flight of Dreams](https://tifam.ie/flight-of-dreams/) - From Bow to Book It’s not every day you watch a friend’s dream take flight. But today, with the release of The Phoenix Archer, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Matt Latimer isn’t just an author to me—he’s a friend, a colleague, and one of the most quietly determined people I’ve ever met. And this book?
- [The Cruelty of Tension](https://tifam.ie/the-cruelty-of-tension/) - C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia is a work so steeped in allegory that every element feels laden with meaning. Among these, the bow—gifted to Susan Pevensie—stands out as a symbol not only of strength and discipline but of choice, a curious mix of autonomy and submission to a higher purpose. I often reflect on this choice as I hold manuscripts in my hands, wondering if the writer truly understands the weapon they wield. A bow, after all, is not a casual gift. It demands skill, precision, and faith, not unlike the very act of writing itself. Lewis was a writer who understood the importance of symbols. His life, punctuated by tragedy and a long wrestling match with faith, shaped his fiction in profound ways. Raised in a bookish home, he lost his mother at a young age and endured the horrors of the First World War—a crucible that left him both skeptical of shallow optimism and hungry for meaning.
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - With Jo Ann Irvine Bell](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-with-jo-ann-irvine-bell/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
- [Wexford Archery DIABOLICAL CHALLENGE](https://tifam.ie/wexford-archery-diabolical-challenge/)
- [The Bowman's Banter](https://tifam.ie/the-bowmans-banter/) - Why did the archer bring a ladder to practice? Because they wanted to raise their game! Now, if only all of us had such practical solutions to the peculiar challenges of this noble sport. Archery’s grand, to be sure, but if you’re imagining serene moments of poetic precision, free of mishap or interference, you’ve likely never shot a single arrow on this rain-soaked isle. No, the truth of it is that archery in Ireland has a way of humbling even the steadiest hand, often with the help of a few choice characters.
- [Latimer’s Arching Vision](https://tifam.ie/latimers-arching-vision/) - There are books that do not simply live upon shelves but rather take root in the hollows of your chest, pulsing in quiet defiance of forgetfulness. Matt Latimer’s The Phoenix Archer is such a book, not content to merely be read but insisting upon being absorbed, like breath, like blood. To enter its pages is not a choice; it is an inevitability, a surrender to a world that demands not only attention but allegiance.
- [IFAF AGM 2024](https://tifam.ie/ifaf-agm-2024/) - 2024… Another very busy and energetic IFAF year. To commence, Martin Moylan and Don Priestly, both who had spent time on the IFAF committee and who sadly passed away during the year, were fondly remembered.
- [White wolf UAR shoot](https://tifam.ie/white-wolf-uar-shoot/)
- [Through Arrows’ Flight](https://tifam.ie/through-arrows-flight/) - Longtime readers will undoubtedly have noticed that I’ve always been rather fascinated by the history part of archery. The bow has a way of reaching through the centuries, linking us to people who stood before making their release under skies numerous times changed yet still creating that same smooth arc. However this time, I have chosen to go a little further under the covers of the books, dusting off old tomes and brushing aside forgotten fables, to whisk you away into the first few decades of the 20th century. A story of how archery, an ancient art, found itself in that lovely juxtaposition of sitting with one foot firmly implanted in preserving tradition while the other foot fits oddly into a shoe designed to help you navigate modern chaos.
- [Smack my controversy - Anchor Point Arrogance](https://tifam.ie/smack-my-controversy-2/) - Welcome, readers! This time, I’ve got something for you that’s bound to ruffle some feathers—but hey, that’s the whole point of this column. It’s here to provoke, to poke, and to stick a thorn right where it hurts the most. Remember, though, the conversation doesn’t end here—I’m eagerly awaiting your responses! Be outraged, tear my opinions to shreds, and “smack my controversy” as hard as you can!
- [Field-ready outdoor Column](https://tifam.ie/field-ready-outdoor-column/)
- [IT'S RED FOX TIME!](https://tifam.ie/its-red-fox-time/)
- [Steel, Shadows, and Scorched Earth](https://tifam.ie/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 his deeds with a gilded reverence, but the man himself remains elusive, lurking in the
- [Arrows of Inspiration](https://tifam.ie/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 fantasy. If you, too, have wandered those shifting trails, you’ll know their peculiar allure: a
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Jack Tomlinson](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-jack-tomlinson/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
- [Robin Hood Shoot](https://tifam.ie/robin-hood-shoot/) - There isn’t much evidence to support the existence of Robin Hood. Which is sad really. The Americans can claim Fred Bear and Howard Hill, of course. But it is unlikely the gallantry and romance of undermining a greedy and corrupt authority was true to life. Imagine taking money from politicians and using it to support
- [MEET AOIBHINN](https://tifam.ie/meet-aoibhinn/) - Hi everyone, My name is Aoibhinn Cowley and I only started archery in the 2nd half of last year and to date have only shot four outdoor competitions and two rounds of the International Mail match. I shoot a traditional recurve which is dark grey and black in colour as I am a big Wednesday
- [Monkey mind versus monks mind!](https://tifam.ie/monkey-mind-versus-monks-mind/) - Deeply considered and wise words from amiable and likable compound archer Anto Corcoran Edited by Andrew Wayland I have heard it said that archery is a very white belt sport. ( white belt mentality is simply remaining open to a lifetime of learning). ‘Monkey mind’ appears to know everything already, it is that constant ,distracting
- [We always work against the time](https://tifam.ie/we-always-work-against-the-time/) - There is an old Latin proverb: "Vivit post funera virtus," which translates to "Virtue lives after death." This saying expresses the belief that though a person's body dies, their virtues and values remain alive in the memory of others. It is an undeniable truth about our spiritual state, but the most intriguing aspect of this posthumous reflection is what is not immediately visible or audible—the process by which people come to remember and speak of these virtues, the process that ensures, as the proverb states, these virtues continue to live, even though the person to whom they are attributed is already far away.
- [Andrews 20 Questions N0.8](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-n0-8/)
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions/) - #18 Conor O’ Connor By Andrew Wayland interview installment number 18 and we go up the north west this time to talk with a very well liked and extremely talented archer... Conor O’Connor. It is always nice to see Conor showing up at a competition as you are guaranteed banter, and craic as well as
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions - #19 MART MÜRK](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-2/) - For this 19th installment we focus on a well recognised, liked and skilled flatbow archer. he is easily recognised by his choice of head covering- a viking/ Scandinavian hat as well as the fact he is usually accompanied by his partner Marika. they always bring colour and smiles to an archery event and are both
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-q-alan-callister/) - This is the 22nd interview and this month sees an archer of target/archery Ireland origins but who is becoming a more frequent presence at various field shoots which is great as he is one of the most bubbliest, brightest, and amiable people I've met, even if I really only have got to know him this past year. So this month it is the turn of Wicklow archer Alan Callister, the larger than life character who we should all get to know. The format of this interview is 20 questions, the first 10 of which are generally the same, specifically around the subjects of archery career and experiences to date, the 2nd set of 10 is usually broader as the interviewee chooses 10 random numbers themselves from 11-60 which dictates what questions I ask them.
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions - #23 Deidre Shannon](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-23/) - Hello Deidre and welcome to the TIFAM magazine and specifically my monthly 20 question interview. I am enjoying getting to know a bit about you and as you point out it is Deidre with only one r and you also tell me you have another exciting away trip coming up very soon. We had a
- [Andrew's shoot reports](https://tifam.ie/andrews-shoot-reports/) - What a weekend, as the crew of Laois Archery went above and beyond to host a highly successful, professional looking and memorable national Bowhunter Champs and were able to accomodate such a large field or archers. and didn’t they provide an amazing challenge- most notably the placement of the 3d targets to mess with our
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions - #24 CONOR STOKES](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-24-conor-stokes/) - Conor, hi and welcome to this, our 24th interview and I’m delighted you are our archer of the moment for today’s interview. Will we learn some new aspects of your life through this… I’m sure the answer shall be a firm yes, so lets make a start.
- [Andrew's Monthly Photo Roundup](https://tifam.ie/andrews-monthly-photo-roundup/)
- [The Forgotten Legacy of French Archery](https://tifam.ie/the-forgotten-legacy-of-french-archery/) - There are few things as revealing of a nation's soul as the way it arms itself, not merely in the sense of conquest and defence, but in the quiet rituals and peculiar allegiances woven into its martial traditions. A nation’s weapons are never just instruments of war; they are reflections of its fears, its aspirations,
- [a whisper in the dark](https://tifam.ie/a-whisper-in-the-dark/) - You think you understand violence. You think you’ve seen it, measured it, weighed it in your hands like something you could master, something that bends to the will of the wielder. You think a weapon is just a tool. But you’ve never drawn a bow. Not properly. Not in the way that matters. A blade
- [An archer's spindle of literature Column](https://tifam.ie/an-archers-spindle-of-literature-column/) - I first stumbled upon Irish Celtic mythology when I was a lad of fourteen, a scrawny thing with a wild imagination and a stubborn curiosity for the unknown. It was my older sister who planted the seed, gifting me a book for my birthday—a slim yet intriguing volume by Jerzy Gąssowski titled "Mitologia Celtów". It
- [Thorgal - precision, restraint and choice.](https://tifam.ie/thorgal-precision-restraint-and-choice/) - The trade was small, insignificant in the grand scheme of things. A childhood barter, some scrap of possession given away for something else, though the details are long since swallowed by the tides of memory. I don’t remember what I lost. Nevertheless, I remembered what I had gained - Thorgal, the first of many. This
- [This and that monthly column](https://tifam.ie/this-and-that-monthly-column/)
- [Draw, Aim, Endure](https://tifam.ie/draw-aim-endure/) - IFAF Indoor National championship 2025 Saturday morning, and the gods had decided to be kind. No rain, no howling winds, just an uncharacteristically mild February air settling over Waterford like a held breath. Eight degrees Celsius, but let’s leave Anders and his thermometer out of this. The point is, for Ireland in early February, it
- [Hook Lighthouse archery tradition](https://tifam.ie/hook-lighthouse-archery-tradition/) - Date: 01-01-2025 time 13:00 Place: Hook Lighthouse Co. Wexford The annual arrow ceremony took place on January 1st at Europe's oldest lighthouse. For umpteen years now, archers from the local Dunbrody club have participated in this age old tradition. This tradition came about as the New Ross council would shoot an arrow into the sea
- [John the blind - The King's last charge](https://tifam.ie/john-the-blind-the-kings-last-charge/) - “The king, his heart resolute, called upon his knights, ‘Where is my son, Charles?’ They replied, ‘Sire, we know not; we believe he fights on.’ Then he declared, ‘Loyal companions, lead me into the fray, that I may strike but one blow with my sword.’ To ensure they would not lose him in the chaos,
- [Andrew's 20 questions - #26 michael hambly](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-26-michael-hambly/) - Now this month we feature an absolute gentleman,... such a kind, thoughtful, considerate and lovely guy all round. he is one of the stalwarts of the great mayo archery club and always has a word of welcome and a smile for archers from all corners of the country. This month it is none other than
- [“Field Ready” outdoor Column](https://tifam.ie/field-ready-outdoor-column-3/) - The wind shifted. That peculiar scent of damp earth, wood smoke, and the first stirrings of green rising from winter’s quiet breath. The hedgerows outside my window whispered of coming rain, the kind that soaks slow and steady, not in the dramatic rage of winter’s storms but with a patient insistence that everything must bloom,
- [Smack my controversy Column](https://tifam.ie/smack-my-controversy-column-2/) - Archery has always been a sport where art meets science. Everything, from the curve of a bow limb to the fletching on an arrow, is a delicate dance of physics and intuition. But in recent years, one feature has captured the imagination of archers everywhere: speed. The faster the arrow, the better the shot—or so
- [ANDREW'S 20 Questions - #25 Clodagh Nolan](https://tifam.ie/andrews-20-questions-3/) - 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 we’ve shared some sadder moments too.But right now we will start with your introduction into
- [Hachiman: The God of War and Archery](https://tifam.ie/hachiman-the-god-of-war-and-archery/) - The story arrived as many others do, cloaked in the smoky haze of memory and the eccentric cadence of a teller who half-believes the story they’re telling. Dim, my father’s driver, was the one who first mentioned Hachiman. I could hardly think of him as anything more than a driver, someone who provided a service
- [On weather phenomena and archery](https://tifam.ie/on-weather-phenomena-and-archery/) - As I start to write this article it is 1am on Jan 24th 2025 as the much anticipated and dreaded storm Eowyn is raging outside and I am wondering how bad it will be over the next 10 hours . Already the lights have flickered off and back on and we have had reports in
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 5](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-5/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [American Bowyers](https://tifam.ie/american-bowyers/) - A bow is born long before the first curl of wood makes its way to the ground before the rasp makes the first bite into the grain or the sinew begins to hum against the frame that is slowly taking shape. It starts deep inside the hush of the forest, where a bowyer strolls at a
- [The Archer's Mark - An Interview with Nick Anton](https://tifam.ie/the-archers-mark/) - Good day, Nick, and welcome to our new interview series, The Archer's Mark, which will be published every month in print and online. First off, thanks for taking the time to chat. I have to admit, once I got started with these questions, they just kept coming! I had to show some serious restraint to
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Michael White](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-michael-white/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Renee McDowell](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-renee-mcdowell/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
- [Tracing the Path: Indigenous Odyssey](https://tifam.ie/tracing-the-path-indigenous-odyssey/) - "The bow whispers to the archer: trust the wind, trust the arrow, trust yourself." There’s a certain quiet to the past, a hush that lingers in old things—tools, stories, hands that remember what the world once was. Some things don’t fade, not really. They sit in the shadows, waiting for the right moment, the right
- [Primeval and Forsaken](https://tifam.ie/primeval-and-forsaken/) - A film review of frontier brutality, archery, and the quiet horror of survival. There’s something primal about the way American Primeval treats archery—something that strips it of romance, of the quiet elegance we might have once attributed to it in stories of old. The bow here is not a weapon of honour, of skill honed
- [The Bownan's Banter Column](https://tifam.ie/the-bownans-banter-column/) - Aiming for Connection Archery isn’t just a sport or a skill—it’s an invitation to step into a world that challenges and rewards in equal measure. It prompts precision, patience, and self-awareness, and it always gives something more in return. Whether you are drawn w by the allure of a classic recurve bow, a longbow, or perhaps
- [TIFAM Youth Merit Cup](https://tifam.ie/tifam-youth-merit-cup/) - ** A Vision Cast Far Beyond the Target ** By Marcin Malek In the noble pursuit of archery, one discovers a discipline not solely confined to the draw of a bow and the flight of an arrow but one that extends its reach into the realms of personal development and civic engagement. As Editor-in-Chief of
- [The Archery Guild - Slumbering Gods](https://tifam.ie/the-archery-guild/) - The first of a series of short stories about The Archery Guild and its members, set in a fantasy world, known as Anordaithe.
- [Expeditionary](https://tifam.ie/expeditionary/) - The second of a series of short stories about The Archery Guild and its members, set in a fantasy world, known as Anordaithe. For those familiar with The Phoenix Archer, the Dytrentian Empire gets mentioned a few times. In this short piece, follow a greedy member of its Expeditionary Force for a insight into Empire's armed forces.
- [Line Cutter](https://tifam.ie/line-cutter/) - The third of a series of short stories about The Archery Guild and its members, set in a fantasy world, known as Anordaithe.
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Prologue](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 1](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-1/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [Tegfan's Bow](https://tifam.ie/tegfans-bow/) - For anyone who has read The Phoenix Archer, the name Tegfan Fielder will be familiar. This his own story, focusing on a tale surrounding his longbow which never made it into the chapter featuring The Scarred Foresters and Luciana Doran's own personal crusade seeing its apotheosis.
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 2](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-2/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 3](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-3/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [Here and beyond](https://tifam.ie/here-and-beyond/) - EDITOR’s NOTE [November 2024] As the editor-in-chief of The Irish Field Archery Monthly (TIFAM), I am always torn between two alternatives that define the role of this magazine: are we the chroniclers of the events and achievements of the sport of archery, or the catalyzing agent of new thoughts change in the sport both within
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 4](https://tifam.ie/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-4/) - Considered the most established of Anordaithe’s five continents, The Sigel still hides beautiful and wicked revelations yet to be found. After receiving an invitation from the Maytoni Summiteers, Alejandro Zaragosa, Ksenia Kiamount, and Blair Ruthvane travel to The Sigel. The trio fall into a conspiracy, millennia in the making, forcing them along a path which crosses into the works of the very legend whose crusade sought to slay Alejandro - Orion Aldenberg. Lost on another trail, Luciana Doran is in mourning for the man who restored a life to her. With a rogue Summiteer, she pursues the tracks of an unknown force threatening to bring forth an evil Orion worked to keep secret. Presenting, the follow up to The Phoenix Archer, set shortly after the events of the first story, The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy.
- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Karen Tufts](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-karen-tufts/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
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- [TIFAM FESTIVAL UPDATE](https://tifam.ie/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 the most significant change to the festival is its open format: for the first time
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- [Archers Talkin' Archery - Keith Henderson](https://tifam.ie/archers-talkin-archery-keith-henderson/) - More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
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- [The Bowman's Banter Column](https://tifam.ie/the-bowmans-banter-column/) - My first bow was a Diana longbow made by a Polish company called Lukbis. It was a wonder that felt as light as air, built to simplicity and beauty, and at a draw weight of 38lb, felt in your hand more like a toy than a weapon. Not only was this bow my first foray into archery; it was the foundation of my bow-wielding journey, one that taught me a great deal about form, technique, and the kind of unfathomable, silent connection that exists between archer and arrow. Like so many newbies, I started shooting wooden arrows with plastic nocks, a sensible combination ideal for mastering the fundamentals. However, as my interest grew, I began seeking alternatives, motivated by a commitment to embrace the old-school craftsmanship of the sport.
- [Freedom’s Quiet Flame](https://tifam.ie/freedoms-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.
- [Archery Gear Reviews:](https://tifam.ie/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 in a nice padded case and consists of the analyzer, the connection cable and the
- [“Field Ready” outdoor Column](https://tifam.ie/field-ready-outdoor-column-2/)
- [Blackbird Monthly Column](https://tifam.ie/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.
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- [Lesser things and trivia column](https://tifam.ie/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 or an elusive luxury, there was one queue that crackled with excitement: the one in
- [Smack my controversy column](https://tifam.ie/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 has our obsession with this singular motion tipped from useful focus to unhelpful fanaticism? Are
- [Marcin's Favourite historical Figures Column](https://tifam.ie/marcins-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 reshaping nations. His was not the bombastic life of a hero but rather the delicate,
- [An archer's spindle of literature](https://tifam.ie/an-archers-spindle-of-literature-2/) - 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 island’s silence is thick, broken only by the occasional squall of gulls and the ragged
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- [Newsroom](https://tifam.ie/newsroom/) - 3D World Championships Slovenia The 2024 World Archery 3D Championships are currently taking place at the scenic Mokrice Castle in Slovenia, running from September 30 to October 6. Over 300 archers from 31 countries are participating, competing in the 3D archery discipline, which involves shooting at lifelike animal targets set in natural environments. The tournament
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- [Winning paths episode 39](https://tifam.ie/winning-paths-episode-39/) - Tolkien's Bows of Fate ~ unstrung ~ Also available as an episode of the Winning Paths podcast on our channel www.youtube.com/@Winning_Paths The bows of the Galadhrim hum with the taut pull of destiny, their strings drawn tight, not as mere instruments of war, but as conduits of a deeper truth. In Tolkien's mythos, the bow
- [From Basic to Somewhat Pro setup](https://tifam.ie/from-basic-to-somewhat-pro-setup/) - Hello folks, my article for this month is my transition from my bows. This is a new topic explaining equipment, so bear with me. So in September 2021, I started archery with Black Castle Archers. At the time, I started like all newbies on a wooden recurve. In my case, I started on a 26lb
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- [Mini Games](https://tifam.ie/mini-games/) - When I first started flinging sticks a decade ago, I was taken aback by the density of clubs, not just locally but all over this fine island. It seems archery is Ireland’s best kept secret. Furthermore, the scales had fallen from my eyes as I was introduced to field archery. Until then, my awareness of
- [“The Art of Coaching” a talk by Wayne Goldsmith.](https://tifam.ie/the-art-of-coaching-a-talk-by-wayne-goldsmith/) - Hello all. Its been a while since my last ramblings and unexpectedly I was elected to the post of IFAF secretary at our recent AGM. Thank you all for the vote of confidence. I will do my best. So, I have had an ever-increasing interest in coaching in recent years and last night I attended
- [Arrows of Unity (Laois Archery Field and Hunter Round, April 2024)](https://tifam.ie/arrows-of-unity-laois-archery-field-and-hunter-round-april-2024/) - The Laois Archery Field and Hunter Round, held in the picturesque setting of MacDonald's Woods in Clonkeen on the 6th and 7th of April 2024, exemplified the enduring appeal and community spirit of archery. This event, set in the verdant countryside of Ireland, brought together a diverse range of participants each contributing to a rich
- [Launch of the First Issue of TIFAM YOUTH Archery Magazine in February!](https://tifam.ie/launch-of-the-first-issue-of-tifam-youth-archery-magazine-in-february/) - February will bring a revolution to the world of archery for youth, with the debut of a new magazine created specifically for the youngest archery enthusiasts – TIFAM YOUTH. This innovative publication, edited and managed by school-age youth, aims to inspire and unite young archers from Ireland and beyond. What to Expect in the First
- [Interview with Marika Koovit](https://tifam.ie/fashion-corner-with-maria-malek-10-year-tifam-editor-interview-with-marika-koovit/) - Fashion corner with Maria Malek, FOURTH-GRADER, TIFAM Youth Editor I noticed that you have a very interested style, so tell me what fashion have in common with archery? Doesn’t one disturb the other? First of all thank you for such a lovely interest of my style. I’ve never considered myself being fashionable even tho I
- [Jasmine’s 10 questions](https://tifam.ie/jasmines-10-questions/) - 1.Why did you start archery? I found it enjoyable when I did it in scouts, and during my 6 week training, I discovered a passion for it. As it was COVID, I started in the woods. 2.Why barebow? I needed to reset myself as an incident I had that caused major issues with shooting bowhunter.

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- [coaching](https://tifam.ie/tag/coaching/)
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- [book review](https://tifam.ie/tag/book-review/)
- [Brian Meehan](https://tifam.ie/tag/brian-meehan/)
- [myths and legends](https://tifam.ie/tag/myths-and-legends/)
- [TIFAM Youth Cup of Merit](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam-youth-cup-of-merit/)
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- [Mary Rose](https://tifam.ie/tag/mary-rose/)
- [Naval power](https://tifam.ie/tag/naval-power/)
- [Henry VIII](https://tifam.ie/tag/henry-viii/)
- [technicalities](https://tifam.ie/tag/technicalities/)
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- [the natural world](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-natural-world/)
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- [TIFAM](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam/)
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- [Lough Cuan Bowmen](https://tifam.ie/tag/lough-cuan-bowmen/)
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- [art](https://tifam.ie/tag/art/)
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- [nature art](https://tifam.ie/tag/nature-art/)
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- [Archery Fiction](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-fiction/)
- [Fantasy Fiction](https://tifam.ie/tag/fantasy-fiction/)
- [Archery Fantasy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-fantasy/)
- [Short Stories](https://tifam.ie/tag/short-stories/)
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- [Horus](https://tifam.ie/tag/horus/)
- [podcast Winning Paths](https://tifam.ie/tag/podcast-winning-paths/)
- [Martn Smallridge](https://tifam.ie/tag/martn-smallridge/)
- [archery trivia](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-trivia/)
- [lesser things and trivia](https://tifam.ie/tag/lesser-things-and-trivia/)
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- [IFAF](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf/)
- [Ethics](https://tifam.ie/tag/ethics/)
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- [archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers/)
- [archery interview](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-interview/)
- [Raymond Huang](https://tifam.ie/tag/raymond-huang/)
- [MART MÜRK](https://tifam.ie/tag/mart-murk/)
- [Andrew Wayland](https://tifam.ie/tag/andrew-wayland/)
- [bow review](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-review/)
- [bill Stewart](https://tifam.ie/tag/bill-stewart/)
- [Multi-Cam bow designs](https://tifam.ie/tag/multi-cam-bow-designs/)
- [John Shiel](https://tifam.ie/tag/john-shiel/)
- [Chris Ocampo](https://tifam.ie/tag/chris-ocampo/)
- [Bow setup](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-setup/)
- [Dunbrody 100 3D](https://tifam.ie/tag/dunbrody-100-3d/)
- [IFAA](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaa/)
- [Dunbrody](https://tifam.ie/tag/dunbrody/)
- [Archery Festival](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-festival/)
- [TAIAF 2024](https://tifam.ie/tag/taiaf-2024/)
- [TIFAM FESTIVAL](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam-festival/)
- [Archery Games](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-games/)
- [Archery Competitions](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-competitions/)
- [Fiction](https://tifam.ie/tag/fiction/)
- [Anordaithe](https://tifam.ie/tag/anordaithe/)
- [Line Cutter](https://tifam.ie/tag/line-cutter/)
- [Archery Guild](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-guild/)
- [Archery Fantasy Fiction](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-fantasy-fiction/)
- [Target Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/target-archery/)
- [Sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/sport/)
- [Outdoor Sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/outdoor-sport/)
- [Short Story](https://tifam.ie/tag/short-story/)
- [Show of Power](https://tifam.ie/tag/show-of-power/)
- [archery champs](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-champs/)
- [AI champs](https://tifam.ie/tag/ai-champs/)
- [Drewstown House](https://tifam.ie/tag/drewstown-house/)
- [Drewstown Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/drewstown-archers/)
- [Entertainment](https://tifam.ie/tag/entertainment/)
- [Mindfulness](https://tifam.ie/tag/mindfulness/)
- [Storytelling](https://tifam.ie/tag/storytelling/)
- [news](https://tifam.ie/tag/news/)
- [newsroom](https://tifam.ie/tag/newsroom/)
- [whats new](https://tifam.ie/tag/whats-new/)
- [info](https://tifam.ie/tag/info/)
- [community ads](https://tifam.ie/tag/community-ads/)
- [community](https://tifam.ie/tag/community/)
- [Irish archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-archery/)
- [Galway archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/galway-archery/)
- [Loch Riach](https://tifam.ie/tag/loch-riach/)
- [Archery Fun](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-fun/)
- [Archery club](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-club/)
- [Killigarry Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/killigarry-archers/)
- [Archery in Cavan](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-cavan/)
- [Sean Crow](https://tifam.ie/tag/sean-crow/)
- [Fun shoot](https://tifam.ie/tag/fun-shoot/)
- [challenging archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/challenging-archery/)
- [Winning Paths Podcast](https://tifam.ie/tag/winning-paths-podcast/)
- [Tolkien](https://tifam.ie/tag/tolkien/)
- [Archery i Tolkien's books](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-i-tolkiens-books/)
- [The Phoenix Archer](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archer/)
- [Orion's Legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/orions-legacy/)
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy/)
- [Orion's Legacy - Prologue](https://tifam.ie/tag/orions-legacy-prologue/)
- [The Golden Gargoyle](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-golden-gargoyle/)
- [Alejandro Zaragosa](https://tifam.ie/tag/alejandro-zaragosa/)
- [Ksenia Kiamount](https://tifam.ie/tag/ksenia-kiamount/)
- [Luciana Doran](https://tifam.ie/tag/luciana-doran/)
- [Evander Penrose](https://tifam.ie/tag/evander-penrose/)
- [Orion Aldenberg](https://tifam.ie/tag/orion-aldenberg/)
- [Blair Ruthvane](https://tifam.ie/tag/blair-ruthvane/)
- [Chapter 1 - Havicore's Phoenix](https://tifam.ie/tag/chapter-1-havicores-phoenix/)
- [Alan Callister](https://tifam.ie/tag/alan-callister/)
- [Wicklow archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/wicklow-archers/)
- [World archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/world-archery/)
- [Archery history](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-history/)
- [Horseback Havoc](https://tifam.ie/tag/horseback-havoc/)
- [Sarmatian Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/sarmatian-archery/)
- [Archery's Oddballs](https://tifam.ie/tag/archerys-oddballs/)
- [trivia](https://tifam.ie/tag/trivia/)
- [funny and witty](https://tifam.ie/tag/funny-and-witty/)
- [Fantasy Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/fantasy-archery/)
- [Fortune's Griffin](https://tifam.ie/tag/fortunes-griffin/)
- [The Phoenix Archery - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 2](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archery-orions-legacy-chapter-2/)
- [The Wraith-Bane Bear](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-wraith-bane-bear/)
- [Chapter 2](https://tifam.ie/tag/chapter-2/)
- [Chapter 3](https://tifam.ie/tag/chapter-3/)
- [NI Open and Field Championships 2024](https://tifam.ie/tag/ni-open-and-field-championships-2024/)
- [editors note](https://tifam.ie/tag/editors-note/)
- [TIFAM 3rd anniversary](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam-3rd-anniversary/)
- [archery magazine](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-magazine/)
- [Smack my controversy](https://tifam.ie/tag/smack-my-controversy/)
- [archery controversies](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-controversies/)
- [Deidre Shannon](https://tifam.ie/tag/deidre-shannon/)
- [Laois Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/laois-archery/)
- [IFAF vjamps](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-vjamps/)
- [An archer's spindle of literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/an-archers-spindle-of-literature/)
- [literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/literature/)
- [classic literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/classic-literature/)
- [archery in classic literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-classic-literature/)
- [Archery Story](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-story/)
- [Mercy](https://tifam.ie/tag/mercy/)
- [Tales of the Archery Guild](https://tifam.ie/tag/tales-of-the-archery-guild/)
- [Matt Latimer](https://tifam.ie/tag/matt-latimer/)
- [Fantasy Novel](https://tifam.ie/tag/fantasy-novel/)
- [Matt's Latimer book](https://tifam.ie/tag/matts-latimer-book/)
- [Books](https://tifam.ie/tag/books/)
- [books review](https://tifam.ie/tag/books-review/)
- [TIFAM publishing](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam-publishing/)
- [great read](https://tifam.ie/tag/great-read/)
- [great book](https://tifam.ie/tag/great-book/)
- [best book](https://tifam.ie/tag/best-book/)
- [best read](https://tifam.ie/tag/best-read/)
- [Archery in Literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-literature/)
- [C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia](https://tifam.ie/tag/c-s-lewiss-the-chronicles-of-narnia/)
- [C.S. Lewis](https://tifam.ie/tag/c-s-lewis/)
- [book editing](https://tifam.ie/tag/book-editing/)
- [Literary criticism](https://tifam.ie/tag/literary-criticism/)
- [Compound](https://tifam.ie/tag/compound/)
- [Compound Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/compound-archery/)
- [Compound Unlimited](https://tifam.ie/tag/compound-unlimited/)
- [Archers Talkin' Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-talkin-archery/)
- [Interviews](https://tifam.ie/tag/interviews/)
- [Archer Interviews](https://tifam.ie/tag/archer-interviews/)
- [Archery Interviews](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-interviews/)
- [Shooting Arrows](https://tifam.ie/tag/shooting-arrows/)
- [Wexford Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/wexford-archery/)
- [Diabolical archery challenge](https://tifam.ie/tag/diabolical-archery-challenge/)
- [regular column](https://tifam.ie/tag/regular-column/)
- [Books we love](https://tifam.ie/tag/books-we-love/)
- [White Wolf](https://tifam.ie/tag/white-wolf/)
- [Shoot pictorial](https://tifam.ie/tag/shoot-pictorial/)
- [[Anchor Point Arrogance]](https://tifam.ie/tag/anchor-point-arrogance/)
- [Conor Stokes](https://tifam.ie/tag/conor-stokes/)
- [Field-ready outdoor Column](https://tifam.ie/tag/field-ready-outdoor-column/)
- [winter gear](https://tifam.ie/tag/winter-gear/)
- [REDFOX](https://tifam.ie/tag/redfox/)
- [photo roundup](https://tifam.ie/tag/photo-roundup/)
- [archery in Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-ireland/)
- [The Phoenix Archer - Orion's Legacy - Chapter 4](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-4/)
- [Chapter 4](https://tifam.ie/tag/chapter-4/)
- [Muckamore Company of Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/muckamore-company-of-archers/)
- [Trad Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/trad-archery/)
- [Flatbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/flatbow/)
- [American Flatbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-flatbow/)
- [Traditional Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/traditional-archery/)
- [Autism in Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/autism-in-archery/)
- [ASD](https://tifam.ie/tag/asd/)
- [Portsmouth Round](https://tifam.ie/tag/portsmouth-round/)
- [archery essay](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-essay/)
- [Lisburn City and District Club](https://tifam.ie/tag/lisburn-city-and-district-club/)
- [Barebow](https://tifam.ie/tag/barebow/)
- [Recurve](https://tifam.ie/tag/recurve/)
- [barebow archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/barebow-archery/)
- [Soviet cinematography](https://tifam.ie/tag/soviet-cinematography/)
- [Movie review](https://tifam.ie/tag/movie-review/)
- [film review](https://tifam.ie/tag/film-review/)
- [Archery in movies](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-movies/)
- [Indoor Sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/indoor-sport/)
- [Archery gear review](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-gear-review/)
- [gear review](https://tifam.ie/tag/gear-review/)
- [Bearpaw’s Arrow Analyser](https://tifam.ie/tag/bearpaws-arrow-analyser/)
- [outdoor rear review](https://tifam.ie/tag/outdoor-rear-review/)
- [review](https://tifam.ie/tag/review/)
- [survival knifes](https://tifam.ie/tag/survival-knifes/)
- [multi tools](https://tifam.ie/tag/multi-tools/)
- [binoculars](https://tifam.ie/tag/binoculars/)
- [fire starters](https://tifam.ie/tag/fire-starters/)
- [rear reviews](https://tifam.ie/tag/rear-reviews/)
- [TAIAF 2025](https://tifam.ie/tag/taiaf-2025/)
- [TIFAM Festival 2025](https://tifam.ie/tag/tifam-festival-2025/)
- [Blackbird](https://tifam.ie/tag/blackbird/)
- [James Byrne](https://tifam.ie/tag/james-byrne/)
- [Monthly column](https://tifam.ie/tag/monthly-column/)
- [Opiniom](https://tifam.ie/tag/opiniom/)
- [IFAF international rep](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-international-rep/)
- [Mark Deevy](https://tifam.ie/tag/mark-deevy/)
- [this and that to look at](https://tifam.ie/tag/this-and-that-to-look-at/)
- [SIFA](https://tifam.ie/tag/sifa/)
- [SIFA indoor champs](https://tifam.ie/tag/sifa-indoor-champs/)
- [SIFA Event](https://tifam.ie/tag/sifa-event/)
- [event report](https://tifam.ie/tag/event-report/)
- [Soviet era cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/soviet-era-cinema/)
- [archery movies](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-movies/)
- [opinion](https://tifam.ie/tag/opinion/)
- [polemics](https://tifam.ie/tag/polemics/)
- [archery philosophy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-philosophy/)
- [Marcins favourite historical figures](https://tifam.ie/tag/marcins-favourite-historical-figures/)
- [who was](https://tifam.ie/tag/who-was/)
- [Eugen Herrigel](https://tifam.ie/tag/eugen-herrigel/)
- [Clodagh Nolan](https://tifam.ie/tag/clodagh-nolan/)
- [Literature spindle](https://tifam.ie/tag/literature-spindle/)
- [The Phoenix Archer – Orion’s Legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-2/)
- [Orion’s Legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/orions-legacy-2/)
- [The Phoenix Archer – Orion’s Legacy – Chapter 5](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-phoenix-archer-orions-legacy-chapter-5/)
- [The Bowman's Banter Column](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-bowmans-banter-column/)
- [archers journeys](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-journeys/)
- [personal journeys](https://tifam.ie/tag/personal-journeys/)
- [Odysseus](https://tifam.ie/tag/odysseus/)
- [Ralph Fiennes](https://tifam.ie/tag/ralph-fiennes/)
- [Simon Armitage](https://tifam.ie/tag/simon-armitage/)
- [Juliette Binoche](https://tifam.ie/tag/juliette-binoche/)
- [Penelope](https://tifam.ie/tag/penelope/)
- [Odyssey](https://tifam.ie/tag/odyssey/)
- [The Return](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-return/)
- [Uberto Pasolini](https://tifam.ie/tag/uberto-pasolini/)
- [Tim McInnerny](https://tifam.ie/tag/tim-mcinnerny/)
- [Amanda Redman](https://tifam.ie/tag/amanda-redman/)
- [Marcin Malek](https://tifam.ie/tag/marcin-malek/)
- [mythology](https://tifam.ie/tag/mythology/)
- [Homer](https://tifam.ie/tag/homer/)
- [American Primeval](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-primeval/)
- [Lonesome Dove](https://tifam.ie/tag/lonesome-dove/)
- [American frontier](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-frontier/)
- [archery in western](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-western/)
- [Primeval and Forsaken](https://tifam.ie/tag/primeval-and-forsaken/)
- [War of the Feathers](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-of-the-feathers/)
- [Native American archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/native-american-archery/)
- [indigenous archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/indigenous-archery/)
- [Oklahoma](https://tifam.ie/tag/oklahoma/)
- [the Choctaw Nation Labor Day Festival](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-choctaw-nation-labor-day-festival/)
- [Cherokee](https://tifam.ie/tag/cherokee/)
- [Lakota](https://tifam.ie/tag/lakota/)
- [Noel Grayson](https://tifam.ie/tag/noel-grayson/)
- [American Bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-bows/)
- [american Bowyers](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-bowyers/)
- [custom made bow](https://tifam.ie/tag/custom-made-bow/)
- [archery craft](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-craft/)
- [Chise's Bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/chises-bows/)
- [Fox Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/fox-archery/)
- [Ron King](https://tifam.ie/tag/ron-king/)
- [The Great Plains Traditional Bow Company](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-great-plains-traditional-bow-company/)
- [Blacktail Bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/blacktail-bows/)
- [Norm Johnson](https://tifam.ie/tag/norm-johnson/)
- [Pete Sterrett Stahl](https://tifam.ie/tag/pete-sterrett-stahl/)
- [Sterrett Bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/sterrett-bows/)
- [american bow making](https://tifam.ie/tag/american-bow-making/)
- [USA bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/usa-bows/)
- [Bows of USA](https://tifam.ie/tag/bows-of-usa/)
- [Autism](https://tifam.ie/tag/autism/)
- [Autistic Spectrum Disorder](https://tifam.ie/tag/autistic-spectrum-disorder/)
- [indoor archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/indoor-archery/)
- [Competitive Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/competitive-archery/)
- [SETU Arena](https://tifam.ie/tag/setu-arena/)
- [Archery Legends](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-legends/)
- [Archery Championship](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-championship/)
- [Bow and Arrow](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-and-arrow/)
- [Na Loch Dall Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/na-loch-dall-archery/)
- [Precision Shooting](https://tifam.ie/tag/precision-shooting/)
- [Archery Competition](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-competition/)
- [Nick Anton interview](https://tifam.ie/tag/nick-anton-interview/)
- [Laois Archery Club](https://tifam.ie/tag/laois-archery-club/)
- [The Archer’s Mark](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-archers-mark/)
- [Archery coaching tips](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-coaching-tips/)
- [Archery form and technique](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-form-and-technique/)
- [Archery mentorship](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-mentorship/)
- [Archery coaching Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-coaching-ireland/)
- [Traditional recurve archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/traditional-recurve-archery/)
- [Indoor and outdoor archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/indoor-and-outdoor-archery/)
- [IFAF National Head Coach](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-national-head-coach/)
- [IFAF coaching program](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-coaching-program/)
- [Archery training programs](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-training-programs/)
- [Freestyle recurve shooting](https://tifam.ie/tag/freestyle-recurve-shooting/)
- [Best archery clubs in Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/best-archery-clubs-in-ireland/)
- [Irish field archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-field-archery/)
- [Field archery Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/field-archery-ireland/)
- [Competitive archery Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/competitive-archery-ireland/)
- [How to start field archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/how-to-start-field-archery/)
- [HistoricStorm](https://tifam.ie/tag/historicstorm/)
- [SevereStorm](https://tifam.ie/tag/severestorm/)
- [Scotland](https://tifam.ie/tag/scotland/)
- [StormEowyn](https://tifam.ie/tag/stormeowyn/)
- [ExtremeWeather](https://tifam.ie/tag/extremeweather/)
- [IrelandStorm](https://tifam.ie/tag/irelandstorm/)
- [Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/ireland/)
- [WeatherAlert](https://tifam.ie/tag/weatheralert/)
- [StormDamage](https://tifam.ie/tag/stormdamage/)
- [StormCleanup](https://tifam.ie/tag/stormcleanup/)
- [WindDamage](https://tifam.ie/tag/winddamage/)
- [IrishWeather](https://tifam.ie/tag/irishweather/)
- [WeatherReport](https://tifam.ie/tag/weatherreport/)
- [NatureUnleashed](https://tifam.ie/tag/natureunleashed/)
- [tradition](https://tifam.ie/tag/tradition/)
- [legend](https://tifam.ie/tag/legend/)
- [discipline](https://tifam.ie/tag/discipline/)
- [folklore](https://tifam.ie/tag/folklore/)
- [fate](https://tifam.ie/tag/fate/)
- [memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/memory/)
- [war](https://tifam.ie/tag/war/)
- [RedFox Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/redfox-archers/)
- [Coaching Mindset](https://tifam.ie/tag/coaching-mindset/)
- [Strongbow Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/strongbow-archers/)
- [Archery Community](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-community/)
- [Archery Lessons](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-lessons/)
- [Why We Shoot](https://tifam.ie/tag/why-we-shoot/)
- [Archery Adventure](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-adventure/)
- [Archery Skills](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-skills/)
- [Archery Life](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-life/)
- [Coaching Journey](https://tifam.ie/tag/coaching-journey/)
- [Archery Training](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-training/)
- [Archery Instructor](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-instructor/)
- [Learn to Shoot](https://tifam.ie/tag/learn-to-shoot/)
- [Becoming an Instructor](https://tifam.ie/tag/becoming-an-instructor/)
- [Archery Goals](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-goals/)
- [Level 1 Coaching](https://tifam.ie/tag/level-1-coaching/)
- [archery accuracy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-accuracy/)
- [bow speed](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-speed/)
- [arrow spine](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-spine/)
- [arrow velocity](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-velocity/)
- [archery technique](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-technique/)
- [modern bows](https://tifam.ie/tag/modern-bows/)
- [archery physics](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-physics/)
- [archery discipline](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-discipline/)
- [feet per second](https://tifam.ie/tag/feet-per-second/)
- [kinetic energy](https://tifam.ie/tag/kinetic-energy/)
- [archery coaching](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-coaching/)
- [bow tuning](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-tuning/)
- [3D archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/3d-archery/)
- [arrow flight](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-flight/)
- [recurve bow](https://tifam.ie/tag/recurve-bow/)
- [wooden arrows](https://tifam.ie/tag/wooden-arrows/)
- [archery experiences](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-experiences/)
- [instinctive shooting](https://tifam.ie/tag/instinctive-shooting/)
- [archery culture](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-culture/)
- [Michael Hambly](https://tifam.ie/tag/michael-hambly/)
- [jackets](https://tifam.ie/tag/jackets/)
- [backpacks](https://tifam.ie/tag/backpacks/)
- [archery essentials](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-essentials/)
- [gaiters](https://tifam.ie/tag/gaiters/)
- [gloves](https://tifam.ie/tag/gloves/)
- [mid-layers](https://tifam.ie/tag/mid-layers/)
- [outdoor adventure](https://tifam.ie/tag/outdoor-adventure/)
- [boots](https://tifam.ie/tag/boots/)
- [base layers](https://tifam.ie/tag/base-layers/)
- [waterproof clothing](https://tifam.ie/tag/waterproof-clothing/)
- [bowhunting](https://tifam.ie/tag/bowhunting/)
- [archery wear](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-wear/)
- [spring archery gear](https://tifam.ie/tag/spring-archery-gear/)
- [Mayo Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/mayo-archery/)
- [New Ross Tradition](https://tifam.ie/tag/new-ross-tradition/)
- [Biodegradable Arrows](https://tifam.ie/tag/biodegradable-arrows/)
- [Historical Archery Events](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-archery-events/)
- [Annual Arrow Ceremony](https://tifam.ie/tag/annual-arrow-ceremony/)
- [Hook Lighthouse](https://tifam.ie/tag/hook-lighthouse/)
- [New Year Archery Tradition](https://tifam.ie/tag/new-year-archery-tradition/)
- [Waterford Estuary](https://tifam.ie/tag/waterford-estuary/)
- [chivalry](https://tifam.ie/tag/chivalry/)
- [medieval warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-warfare/)
- [Hundred Years' War](https://tifam.ie/tag/hundred-years-war/)
- [knightly honor](https://tifam.ie/tag/knightly-honor/)
- [John of Luxembourg](https://tifam.ie/tag/john-of-luxembourg/)
- [historical battles](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-battles/)
- [English longbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/english-longbow/)
- [blind warrior](https://tifam.ie/tag/blind-warrior/)
- [Crécy](https://tifam.ie/tag/crecy/)
- [Thorgal](https://tifam.ie/tag/thorgal/)
- [comics](https://tifam.ie/tag/comics/)
- [Jean Van Hamme](https://tifam.ie/tag/jean-van-hamme/)
- [bow](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow/)
- [Grzegorz Rosiński](https://tifam.ie/tag/grzegorz-rosinski/)
- [Kriss de Valnor](https://tifam.ie/tag/kriss-de-valnor/)
- [Eagle Bowmen](https://tifam.ie/tag/eagle-bowmen/)
- [Autistic Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/autistic-archers/)
- [Keswick Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/keswick-archers/)
- [Flint Round](https://tifam.ie/tag/flint-round/)
- [philosophy](https://tifam.ie/tag/philosophy/)
- [Celtic](https://tifam.ie/tag/celtic/)
- [poetry](https://tifam.ie/tag/poetry/)
- [risk](https://tifam.ie/tag/risk/)
- [film](https://tifam.ie/tag/film/)
- [violence](https://tifam.ie/tag/violence/)
- [revenge](https://tifam.ie/tag/revenge/)
- [tragedy](https://tifam.ie/tag/tragedy/)
- [darkness](https://tifam.ie/tag/darkness/)
- [inevitability](https://tifam.ie/tag/inevitability/)
- [power](https://tifam.ie/tag/power/)
- [Robin Hood](https://tifam.ie/tag/robin-hood/)
- [peregrine feathers](https://tifam.ie/tag/peregrine-feathers/)
- [horsebow](https://tifam.ie/tag/horsebow/)
- [autistic archer](https://tifam.ie/tag/autistic-archer/)
- [indoor competition](https://tifam.ie/tag/indoor-competition/)
- [FITA targets](https://tifam.ie/tag/fita-targets/)
- [archery traditions](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-traditions/)
- [crossbow history](https://tifam.ie/tag/crossbow-history/)
- [Francs-Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/francs-archers/)
- [Compagnies d’Arc](https://tifam.ie/tag/compagnies-darc/)
- [French archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/french-archery/)
- [historical archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-archery/)
- [Olympic archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/olympic-archery/)
- [Agincourt](https://tifam.ie/tag/agincourt/)
- [literary nostalgia](https://tifam.ie/tag/literary-nostalgia/)
- [Evenki hunters](https://tifam.ie/tag/evenki-hunters/)
- [war and survival](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-and-survival/)
- [Soviet literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/soviet-literature/)
- [Kyrgyz steppe](https://tifam.ie/tag/kyrgyz-steppe/)
- [Russian folklore](https://tifam.ie/tag/russian-folklore/)
- [forgotten stories](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgotten-stories/)
- [childhood books](https://tifam.ie/tag/childhood-books/)
- [Thomas de Montagu](https://tifam.ie/tag/thomas-de-montagu/)
- [Siege of Orléans](https://tifam.ie/tag/siege-of-orleans/)
- [historical research](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-research/)
- [longbowmen](https://tifam.ie/tag/longbowmen/)
- [medieval history](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-history/)
- [war tactics](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-tactics/)
- [The Green Archer](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-green-archer/)
- [masked avenger](https://tifam.ie/tag/masked-avenger/)
- [Eyes Without a Face](https://tifam.ie/tag/eyes-without-a-face/)
- [Edgar Wallace](https://tifam.ie/tag/edgar-wallace/)
- [Georges Franju](https://tifam.ie/tag/georges-franju/)
- [krimi](https://tifam.ie/tag/krimi/)
- [German crime films](https://tifam.ie/tag/german-crime-films/)
- [classic horror](https://tifam.ie/tag/classic-horror/)
- [gothic cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/gothic-cinema/)
- [psychological thriller](https://tifam.ie/tag/psychological-thriller/)
- [conquistadors](https://tifam.ie/tag/conquistadors/)
- [jungle resistance](https://tifam.ie/tag/jungle-resistance/)
- [The Mission](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-mission/)
- [cinematic history](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinematic-history/)
- [Aguirre Wrath of God](https://tifam.ie/tag/aguirre-wrath-of-god/)
- [historical tragedy](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-tragedy/)
- [gold fever](https://tifam.ie/tag/gold-fever/)
- [cultural erasure](https://tifam.ie/tag/cultural-erasure/)
- [forgotten voices](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgotten-voices/)
- [colonial madness](https://tifam.ie/tag/colonial-madness/)
- [cinema and history](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinema-and-history/)
- [greed and empire](https://tifam.ie/tag/greed-and-empire/)
- [indigenous memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/indigenous-memory/)
- [El Dorado](https://tifam.ie/tag/el-dorado/)
- [lost civilizations](https://tifam.ie/tag/lost-civilizations/)
- [film analysis](https://tifam.ie/tag/film-analysis/)
- [Throne of Blood](https://tifam.ie/tag/throne-of-blood/)
- [cinematic storytelling](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinematic-storytelling/)
- [Seven Samurai](https://tifam.ie/tag/seven-samurai/)
- [samurai films](https://tifam.ie/tag/samurai-films/)
- [Japanese cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/japanese-cinema/)
- [Akira Kurosawa](https://tifam.ie/tag/akira-kurosawa/)
- [archery in film](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-in-film/)
- [historical drama](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-drama/)
- [fate and destiny](https://tifam.ie/tag/fate-and-destiny/)
- [Gear Up Guide](https://tifam.ie/tag/gear-up-guide/)
- [Archers Life](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-life/)
- [Archery Humour](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-humour/)
- [Field Notes](https://tifam.ie/tag/field-notes/)
- [Archery Wisdom](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-wisdom/)
- [Archers Mindset](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-mindset/)
- [archery equipment](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-equipment/)
- [long draw archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/long-draw-archery/)
- [lightweight arrows](https://tifam.ie/tag/lightweight-arrows/)
- [Dwild Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/dwild-archery/)
- [ILF limbs](https://tifam.ie/tag/ilf-limbs/)
- [Davide Vicini](https://tifam.ie/tag/davide-vicini/)
- [bolt-down limbs](https://tifam.ie/tag/bolt-down-limbs/)
- [multicam limbs](https://tifam.ie/tag/multicam-limbs/)
- [Sinusoid limbs](https://tifam.ie/tag/sinusoid-limbs/)
- [Thor riser](https://tifam.ie/tag/thor-riser/)
- [Soviet cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/soviet-cinema/)
- [childhood nostalgia](https://tifam.ie/tag/childhood-nostalgia/)
- [Sadko 1953](https://tifam.ie/tag/sadko-1953/)
- [Soviet storytelling](https://tifam.ie/tag/soviet-storytelling/)
- [legendary heroes](https://tifam.ie/tag/legendary-heroes/)
- [film and memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/film-and-memory/)
- [Ilya Muromets 1956](https://tifam.ie/tag/ilya-muromets-1956/)
- [cinematic mythology](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinematic-mythology/)
- [archery film review](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-film-review/)
- [martin kroshkin](https://tifam.ie/tag/martin-kroshkin/)
- [Bernal Díaz del Castillo](https://tifam.ie/tag/bernal-diaz-del-castillo/)
- [Mapuche fighters](https://tifam.ie/tag/mapuche-fighters/)
- [Aztec warriors](https://tifam.ie/tag/aztec-warriors/)
- [archery warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-warfare/)
- [Spanish conquest](https://tifam.ie/tag/spanish-conquest/)
- [Inca resistance](https://tifam.ie/tag/inca-resistance/)
- [forgotten history](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgotten-history/)
- [colonial battles](https://tifam.ie/tag/colonial-battles/)
- [lost legends](https://tifam.ie/tag/lost-legends/)
- [European Indoor Championships](https://tifam.ie/tag/european-indoor-championships/)
- [IFAF Nationals](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-nationals/)
- [bow fitness](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-fitness/)
- [modern archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/modern-archery/)
- [resilience in archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/resilience-in-archery/)
- [bow instinct](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-instinct/)
- [archery struggle](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-struggle/)
- [old-school archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/old-school-archers/)
- [bow vs machine](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-vs-machine/)
- [lost skills](https://tifam.ie/tag/lost-skills/)
- [Loch Riach Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/loch-riach-archery/)
- [Andrew’s 20 Questions](https://tifam.ie/tag/andrews-20-questions-2/)
- [archery mindset](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-mindset/)
- [Ishi the last Yahi](https://tifam.ie/tag/ishi-the-last-yahi/)
- [bow making](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-making/)
- [indigenous survival](https://tifam.ie/tag/indigenous-survival/)
- [Saxton Pope](https://tifam.ie/tag/saxton-pope/)
- [archery legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-legacy/)
- [Karl May](https://tifam.ie/tag/karl-may/)
- [storytelling and reality](https://tifam.ie/tag/storytelling-and-reality/)
- [lost frontiers](https://tifam.ie/tag/lost-frontiers/)
- [James Oliver Curwood](https://tifam.ie/tag/james-oliver-curwood/)
- [Winnetou](https://tifam.ie/tag/winnetou/)
- [wilderness writing](https://tifam.ie/tag/wilderness-writing/)
- [historical fiction](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-fiction/)
- [conservation legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/conservation-legacy/)
- [forgotten worlds](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgotten-worlds/)
- [military strategy](https://tifam.ie/tag/military-strategy/)
- [Joan of Arc](https://tifam.ie/tag/joan-of-arc/)
- [French nobility](https://tifam.ie/tag/french-nobility/)
- [Jean de Brosse](https://tifam.ie/tag/jean-de-brosse/)
- [historical injustice](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-injustice/)
- [archery tactics](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-tactics/)
- [Andrei Rublev](https://tifam.ie/tag/andrei-rublev/)
- [philosophical cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/philosophical-cinema/)
- [medieval Russia](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-russia/)
- [historical film](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-film/)
- [fantasy film](https://tifam.ie/tag/fantasy-film/)
- [Ruslan and Ludmila](https://tifam.ie/tag/ruslan-and-ludmila/)
- [allegory](https://tifam.ie/tag/allegory/)
- [North Korea](https://tifam.ie/tag/north-korea/)
- [Korean War](https://tifam.ie/tag/korean-war/)
- [family separation](https://tifam.ie/tag/family-separation/)
- [Korea](https://tifam.ie/tag/korea/)
- [South Korea](https://tifam.ie/tag/south-korea/)
- [exile and longing](https://tifam.ie/tag/exile-and-longing/)
- [philosophical literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/philosophical-literature/)
- [war and memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-and-memory/)
- [control](https://tifam.ie/tag/control/)
- [precision](https://tifam.ie/tag/precision/)
- [warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/warfare/)
- [Schützenfest](https://tifam.ie/tag/schutzenfest/)
- [Germany](https://tifam.ie/tag/germany/)
- [mastery](https://tifam.ie/tag/mastery/)
- [nation at full draw](https://tifam.ie/tag/nation-at-full-draw/)
- [Kyūdō](https://tifam.ie/tag/kyudo/)
- [Mongol archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/mongol-archery/)
- [horseback archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/horseback-archery/)
- [arrow tuning](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-tuning/)
- [form vs tuning](https://tifam.ie/tag/form-vs-tuning/)
- [fatalism](https://tifam.ie/tag/fatalism/)
- [Wat](https://tifam.ie/tag/wat/)
- [oppression](https://tifam.ie/tag/oppression/)
- [exile](https://tifam.ie/tag/exile/)
- [testimony](https://tifam.ie/tag/testimony/)
- [resistance](https://tifam.ie/tag/resistance/)
- [archery and Aleksander Wat](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-and-aleksander-wat/)
- [archery and literature](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-and-literature/)
- [Parajanov](https://tifam.ie/tag/parajanov/)
- [Mizoguchi](https://tifam.ie/tag/mizoguchi/)
- [ritual and myth](https://tifam.ie/tag/ritual-and-myth/)
- [The 47 Ronin](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-47-ronin/)
- [poetic cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/poetic-cinema/)
- [Ashik Kerib](https://tifam.ie/tag/ashik-kerib/)
- [cinematic memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinematic-memory/)
- [carbon limbs](https://tifam.ie/tag/carbon-limbs/)
- [White Feather](https://tifam.ie/tag/white-feather/)
- [seonbi](https://tifam.ie/tag/seonbi/)
- [reflex-deflex](https://tifam.ie/tag/reflex-deflex/)
- [Korean archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/korean-archery/)
- [field testing](https://tifam.ie/tag/field-testing/)
- [Easter shoot](https://tifam.ie/tag/easter-shoot/)
- [Dunbrody Archery Club](https://tifam.ie/tag/dunbrody-archery-club/)
- [UAR shoot](https://tifam.ie/tag/uar-shoot/)
- [archery events](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-events/)
- [mindfulness in archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/mindfulness-in-archery/)
- [archer's gaze](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-gaze/)
- [vision loss](https://tifam.ie/tag/vision-loss/)
- [photoreceptor fatigue](https://tifam.ie/tag/photoreceptor-fatigue/)
- [shooting technique](https://tifam.ie/tag/shooting-technique/)
- [archery fatigue](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-fatigue/)
- [visual adaptation](https://tifam.ie/tag/visual-adaptation/)
- [eye strain](https://tifam.ie/tag/eye-strain/)
- [ArcheryAssassins](https://tifam.ie/tag/archeryassassins/)
- [ForgottenVoices](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgottenvoices/)
- [JoanOfArc](https://tifam.ie/tag/joanofarc/)
- [GothicHistory](https://tifam.ie/tag/gothichistory/)
- [MedievalIntrigue](https://tifam.ie/tag/medievalintrigue/)
- [PowerAndSilence](https://tifam.ie/tag/powerandsilence/)
- [ShadowChronicles](https://tifam.ie/tag/shadowchronicles/)
- [AlchemicalSecrets](https://tifam.ie/tag/alchemicalsecrets/)
- [HistoricalConspiracy](https://tifam.ie/tag/historicalconspiracy/)
- [UnwrittenTruths](https://tifam.ie/tag/unwrittentruths/)
- [archery tools](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-tools/)
- [bow crafting](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-crafting/)
- [spine matching](https://tifam.ie/tag/spine-matching/)
- [fletching](https://tifam.ie/tag/fletching/)
- [woodworking](https://tifam.ie/tag/woodworking/)
- [arrow making](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-making/)
- [arrow shafts](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrow-shafts/)
- [Longbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/longbow/)
- [military history](https://tifam.ie/tag/military-history/)
- [Burgundy](https://tifam.ie/tag/burgundy/)
- [Charles the Bold](https://tifam.ie/tag/charles-the-bold/)
- [Grandson](https://tifam.ie/tag/grandson/)
- [Swiss campaigns](https://tifam.ie/tag/swiss-campaigns/)
- [Nancy](https://tifam.ie/tag/nancy/)
- [forgotten leaders](https://tifam.ie/tag/forgotten-leaders/)
- [presence](https://tifam.ie/tag/presence/)
- [consequence](https://tifam.ie/tag/consequence/)
- [recoil](https://tifam.ie/tag/recoil/)
- [identity](https://tifam.ie/tag/identity/)
- [ritual](https://tifam.ie/tag/ritual/)
- [Tibet](https://tifam.ie/tag/tibet/)
- [legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/legacy/)
- [culture](https://tifam.ie/tag/culture/)
- [Japan](https://tifam.ie/tag/japan/)
- [silence](https://tifam.ie/tag/silence/)
- [sport ethics](https://tifam.ie/tag/sport-ethics/)
- [rebellion](https://tifam.ie/tag/rebellion/)
- [autonomy](https://tifam.ie/tag/autonomy/)
- [pedagogy](https://tifam.ie/tag/pedagogy/)
- [conformity](https://tifam.ie/tag/conformity/)
- [institutional critique](https://tifam.ie/tag/institutional-critique/)
- [embodiment](https://tifam.ie/tag/embodiment/)
- [Ennis](https://tifam.ie/tag/ennis/)
- [County Clare](https://tifam.ie/tag/county-clare/)
- [beginner archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/beginner-archery/)
- [Irish archery club](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-archery-club/)
- [medieval archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-archery/)
- [Bruges guilds](https://tifam.ie/tag/bruges-guilds/)
- [covert resistance](https://tifam.ie/tag/covert-resistance/)
- [archery guilds](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-guilds/)
- [late medieval politics](https://tifam.ie/tag/late-medieval-politics/)
- [merchant class influence](https://tifam.ie/tag/merchant-class-influence/)
- [Ghent rebellions](https://tifam.ie/tag/ghent-rebellions/)
- [medieval conspiracies](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-conspiracies/)
- [secret societies](https://tifam.ie/tag/secret-societies/)
- [civic militias](https://tifam.ie/tag/civic-militias/)
- [political factionalism](https://tifam.ie/tag/political-factionalism/)
- [historical intrigue](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-intrigue/)
- [Survival](https://tifam.ie/tag/survival/)
- [Gothic](https://tifam.ie/tag/gothic/)
- [Post-Apocalyptic](https://tifam.ie/tag/post-apocalyptic/)
- [Stillness](https://tifam.ie/tag/stillness/)
- [Morality](https://tifam.ie/tag/morality/)
- [Folk Horror](https://tifam.ie/tag/folk-horror/)
- [Sentience](https://tifam.ie/tag/sentience/)
- [Decay](https://tifam.ie/tag/decay/)
- [Symbolism](https://tifam.ie/tag/symbolism/)
- [reflection](https://tifam.ie/tag/reflection/)
- [character](https://tifam.ie/tag/character/)
- [fantasy](https://tifam.ie/tag/fantasy/)
- [heroism](https://tifam.ie/tag/heroism/)
- [loyalty](https://tifam.ie/tag/loyalty/)
- [leadership](https://tifam.ie/tag/leadership/)
- [trauma](https://tifam.ie/tag/trauma/)
- [grief](https://tifam.ie/tag/grief/)
- [scar](https://tifam.ie/tag/scar/)
- [wound](https://tifam.ie/tag/wound/)
- [Battle of Crécy](https://tifam.ie/tag/battle-of-crecy/)
- [historical warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-warfare/)
- [Arrowheads](https://tifam.ie/tag/arrowheads/)
- [execution](https://tifam.ie/tag/execution/)
- [William le Scrope](https://tifam.ie/tag/william-le-scrope/)
- [1399](https://tifam.ie/tag/1399/)
- [medieval](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval/)
- [archer](https://tifam.ie/tag/archer/)
- [politics](https://tifam.ie/tag/politics/)
- [Bristol](https://tifam.ie/tag/bristol/)
- [monarchy](https://tifam.ie/tag/monarchy/)
- [PeasantVengeance](https://tifam.ie/tag/peasantvengeance/)
- [RoyalAssassination](https://tifam.ie/tag/royalassassination/)
- [ChâlusChabrol](https://tifam.ie/tag/chaluschabrol/)
- [AngevinEmpire](https://tifam.ie/tag/angevinempire/)
- [Chroniclers](https://tifam.ie/tag/chroniclers/)
- [RichardLionheart](https://tifam.ie/tag/richardlionheart/)
- [PowerAndMercy](https://tifam.ie/tag/powerandmercy/)
- [LegendVsTruth](https://tifam.ie/tag/legendvstruth/)
- [Crossbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/crossbow/)
- [HistoricalMemory](https://tifam.ie/tag/historicalmemory/)
- [MedievalJustice](https://tifam.ie/tag/medievaljustice/)
- [IrishArchery](https://tifam.ie/tag/irisharchery/)
- [ClubShoots](https://tifam.ie/tag/clubshoots/)
- [ArcheryCulture](https://tifam.ie/tag/archeryculture/)
- [BlackbirdPodcast](https://tifam.ie/tag/blackbirdpodcast/)
- [InclusionMatters](https://tifam.ie/tag/inclusionmatters/)
- [ShootDayCraic](https://tifam.ie/tag/shootdaycraic/)
- [TraditionalArchery](https://tifam.ie/tag/traditionalarchery/)
- [OnlineRegistration](https://tifam.ie/tag/onlineregistration/)
- [CommunitySpirit](https://tifam.ie/tag/communityspirit/)
- [ArcheryEvents](https://tifam.ie/tag/archeryevents/)
- [Kilmeaden](https://tifam.ie/tag/kilmeaden/)
- [France](https://tifam.ie/tag/france/)
- [FieldArchery](https://tifam.ie/tag/fieldarchery/)
- [Friendship](https://tifam.ie/tag/friendship/)
- [Béarn](https://tifam.ie/tag/bearn/)
- [CulturalExchange](https://tifam.ie/tag/culturalexchange/)
- [Wexford](https://tifam.ie/tag/wexford/)
- [Valley Bowman](https://tifam.ie/tag/valley-bowman/)
- [Heraclitus](https://tifam.ie/tag/heraclitus/)
- [EmbodiedPractice](https://tifam.ie/tag/embodiedpractice/)
- [Zen](https://tifam.ie/tag/zen/)
- [MedievalJapan](https://tifam.ie/tag/medievaljapan/)
- [AncientGreece](https://tifam.ie/tag/ancientgreece/)
- [Laozi](https://tifam.ie/tag/laozi/)
- [Aristotle](https://tifam.ie/tag/aristotle/)
- [ClassicalChina](https://tifam.ie/tag/classicalchina/)
- [canoeing](https://tifam.ie/tag/canoeing/)
- [SolaceCancerCare](https://tifam.ie/tag/solacecancercare/)
- [riverjourney](https://tifam.ie/tag/riverjourney/)
- [fundraiser](https://tifam.ie/tag/fundraiser/)
- [Donegal](https://tifam.ie/tag/donegal/)
- [charity](https://tifam.ie/tag/charity/)
- [ConorOConnor](https://tifam.ie/tag/conoroconnor/)
- [modern combat](https://tifam.ie/tag/modern-combat/)
- [death at a distance](https://tifam.ie/tag/death-at-a-distance/)
- [empathy](https://tifam.ie/tag/empathy/)
- [military ethics](https://tifam.ie/tag/military-ethics/)
- [remote warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/remote-warfare/)
- [surveillance](https://tifam.ie/tag/surveillance/)
- [drones](https://tifam.ie/tag/drones/)
- [war technology](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-technology/)
- [moral injury](https://tifam.ie/tag/moral-injury/)
- [unmourned dead](https://tifam.ie/tag/unmourned-dead/)
- [Cognitive Tools](https://tifam.ie/tag/cognitive-tools/)
- [Generative Design](https://tifam.ie/tag/generative-design/)
- [Algorithmic Craft](https://tifam.ie/tag/algorithmic-craft/)
- [Embodied Cognition](https://tifam.ie/tag/embodied-cognition/)
- [Archery Innovation](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-innovation/)
- [Algorithmic Vision](https://tifam.ie/tag/algorithmic-vision/)
- [Tradition Reimagined](https://tifam.ie/tag/tradition-reimagined/)
- [Symbiotic Agency](https://tifam.ie/tag/symbiotic-agency/)
- [Predictive Biomechanics](https://tifam.ie/tag/predictive-biomechanics/)
- [Ritual Technology](https://tifam.ie/tag/ritual-technology/)
- [Human-Machine Collaboration](https://tifam.ie/tag/human-machine-collaboration/)
- [Ballyvally Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/ballyvally-archers/)
- [Bronze_Age_weapons](https://tifam.ie/tag/bronze_age_weapons/)
- [ancient_archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/ancient_archery/)
- [cultural_memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/cultural_memory/)
- [medieval_myth](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval_myth/)
- [yew_bow](https://tifam.ie/tag/yew_bow/)
- [Viking_influence](https://tifam.ie/tag/viking_influence/)
- [Irish_history](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish_history/)
- [archaeological_heritage](https://tifam.ie/tag/archaeological_heritage/)
- [Mesolithic_Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/mesolithic_ireland/)
- [Ulster_Cycle](https://tifam.ie/tag/ulster_cycle/)
- [archery_revival](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery_revival/)
- [Bowhunter Recurve](https://tifam.ie/tag/bowhunter-recurve/)
- [Archery Journey](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-journey/)
- [Women in Archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/women-in-archery/)
- [Catherine Power](https://tifam.ie/tag/catherine-power/)
- [International Competition](https://tifam.ie/tag/international-competition/)
- [World Bowhunter Championships](https://tifam.ie/tag/world-bowhunter-championships/)
- [Kilkenny Archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/kilkenny-archers/)
- [Family in Sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/family-in-sport/)
- [Irish history](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-history/)
- [Beatrice Hill-Lowe](https://tifam.ie/tag/beatrice-hill-lowe/)
- [female athletes](https://tifam.ie/tag/female-athletes/)
- [Lottie Dod](https://tifam.ie/tag/lottie-dod/)
- [colonial Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/colonial-ireland/)
- [Gaelic tradition](https://tifam.ie/tag/gaelic-tradition/)
- [women's archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/womens-archery/)
- [Anglo-Irish identity](https://tifam.ie/tag/anglo-irish-identity/)
- [sport and class](https://tifam.ie/tag/sport-and-class/)
- [cultural memory](https://tifam.ie/tag/cultural-memory/)
- [Victorian sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/victorian-sport/)
- [archery podcast](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-podcast/)
- [traditional archery voices](https://tifam.ie/tag/traditional-archery-voices/)
- [start a podcast](https://tifam.ie/tag/start-a-podcast/)
- [archery inspiration](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-inspiration/)
- [creative confidence](https://tifam.ie/tag/creative-confidence/)
- [The Dummy Archer](https://tifam.ie/tag/the-dummy-archer/)
- [podcast encouragement](https://tifam.ie/tag/podcast-encouragement/)
- [Blackbird Podcast](https://tifam.ie/tag/blackbird-podcast/)
- [Archery Not Anarchy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-not-anarchy/)
- [Emlyn Hughes](https://tifam.ie/tag/emlyn-hughes/)
- [longbow shooter](https://tifam.ie/tag/longbow-shooter/)
- [IFAF Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/ifaf-ireland/)
- [symbolic archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/symbolic-archery/)
- [Chi Lewis-Parry](https://tifam.ie/tag/chi-lewis-parry/)
- [father-son stories](https://tifam.ie/tag/father-son-stories/)
- [Alex Garland](https://tifam.ie/tag/alex-garland/)
- [post-apocalyptic cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/post-apocalyptic-cinema/)
- [cinematic grief](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinematic-grief/)
- [Holy Island](https://tifam.ie/tag/holy-island/)
- [Jodie Comer](https://tifam.ie/tag/jodie-comer/)
- [28 Years Later](https://tifam.ie/tag/28-years-later/)
- [Danny Boyle](https://tifam.ie/tag/danny-boyle/)
- [archery and power](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-and-power/)
- [violence and presence](https://tifam.ie/tag/violence-and-presence/)
- [Georges Bataille](https://tifam.ie/tag/georges-bataille/)
- [phenomenology of archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/phenomenology-of-archery/)
- [ritual in sport](https://tifam.ie/tag/ritual-in-sport/)
- [Nietzsche and archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/nietzsche-and-archery/)
- [René Girard](https://tifam.ie/tag/rene-girard/)
- [Marcin Malek essay](https://tifam.ie/tag/marcin-malek-essay/)
- [archer’s philosophy](https://tifam.ie/tag/archers-philosophy/)
- [frontline testimony](https://tifam.ie/tag/frontline-testimony/)
- [Kyiv stories](https://tifam.ie/tag/kyiv-stories/)
- [Ukraine war](https://tifam.ie/tag/ukraine-war/)
- [civilian resilience](https://tifam.ie/tag/civilian-resilience/)
- [Anna from Kyiv](https://tifam.ie/tag/anna-from-kyiv/)
- [archery and war](https://tifam.ie/tag/archery-and-war/)
- [war through friendship](https://tifam.ie/tag/war-through-friendship/)
- [personal war account](https://tifam.ie/tag/personal-war-account/)
- [drone warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/drone-warfare/)
- [Irish-Ukrainian friendship](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-ukrainian-friendship/)
- [parliament origins](https://tifam.ie/tag/parliament-origins/)
- [Simon de Montfort](https://tifam.ie/tag/simon-de-montfort/)
- [folk hero](https://tifam.ie/tag/folk-hero/)
- [Evesham](https://tifam.ie/tag/evesham/)
- [historical brutality](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-brutality/)
- [Prince Edward](https://tifam.ie/tag/prince-edward/)
- [medieval England](https://tifam.ie/tag/medieval-england/)
- [barons’ war](https://tifam.ie/tag/barons-war/)
- [rebel legacy](https://tifam.ie/tag/rebel-legacy/)
- [feudal vengeance](https://tifam.ie/tag/feudal-vengeance/)
- [political martyrdom](https://tifam.ie/tag/political-martyrdom/)
- [cinema](https://tifam.ie/tag/cinema/)
- [dystopia](https://tifam.ie/tag/dystopia/)
- [hunger games](https://tifam.ie/tag/hunger-games/)
- [haymitch abernathy](https://tifam.ie/tag/haymitch-abernathy/)
- [sunrise on the reaping](https://tifam.ie/tag/sunrise-on-the-reaping/)
- [early archery](https://tifam.ie/tag/early-archery/)
- [Neanderthals](https://tifam.ie/tag/neanderthals/)
- [New Ross Library](https://tifam.ie/tag/new-ross-library/)
- [flint tools](https://tifam.ie/tag/flint-tools/)
- [archaeology of presence](https://tifam.ie/tag/archaeology-of-presence/)
- [Women archers Ireland](https://tifam.ie/tag/women-archers-ireland/)
- [prehistoric hunting](https://tifam.ie/tag/prehistoric-hunting/)
- [bow origins](https://tifam.ie/tag/bow-origins/)
- [Pleistocene tools](https://tifam.ie/tag/pleistocene-tools/)
- [Viking archers](https://tifam.ie/tag/viking-archers/)
- [Irish archery history](https://tifam.ie/tag/irish-archery-history/)
- [yeoman](https://tifam.ie/tag/yeoman/)
- [warbow](https://tifam.ie/tag/warbow/)
- [composite bow](https://tifam.ie/tag/composite-bow/)
- [ink drawing](https://tifam.ie/tag/ink-drawing/)
- [poison](https://tifam.ie/tag/poison/)
- [bone](https://tifam.ie/tag/bone/)
- [historical weaponry](https://tifam.ie/tag/historical-weaponry/)
- [sinew](https://tifam.ie/tag/sinew/)
- [Commonwealth army](https://tifam.ie/tag/commonwealth-army/)
- [17th century warfare](https://tifam.ie/tag/17th-century-warfare/)
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