The Irish Foundation for Archery and Mentorship

The Irish Foundation for Archery and Mentorship TIFAM is a voice of archers in Ireland. We work for the benefit of the sport and the archery community. Join us! Thanks, TIFAM editorial Team and Admins.

The Irish Field Archery Monthly is a first Irish NON PROFIT periodical dedicated to archery in its broadest sense. We are an independent publication for the archery community on the island of Ireland and beyond.

​The aim of this introductions is not to present TIFAM at its best, but to shine a light on the true nature of the organisation, that is, all of us whose hard work and dedication have bui

lt this globally unique cultural-community-media entity. Since for us TIFAM is a living organism made up of dreams, sacrifices, tears and the sweat of hard work, but also filled with joy and a compelling sense of achievement. We are aware that we are building something so unusual and so unique that we could just as easily be called a unicorn of the media industry or the black sheep of business, as the pursuit of profit is our least prerogative. As you will read below, our objectives are different and have little to do with the prevailing profit-maximising drive of today. We see the world and its needs through the lens of those close to us, and this is rarely matched by a business approach. Besides, notions of the common good and social justice have always stood in contrast to fiscal calculations aimed at generating needs in order to secure opportunities for capital expansion. Which does not prevent the capitalisation of dreams being combined with capital growth. The point is in the approach to capital accumulation, in other words in the ethics of work and conduct, and in particular in the ethics of building and setting goals that are meaningful and socially viable. This is who we are and what our goals include - accomplished step by step, with effort but also with a smile upon our lips, hope in our hearts and faith for the people we want to help and for whom we roll up our sleeves every day. Our mission is to educate and promote the sport of archery by consolidating the archery community, exchanging information and sharing experience through discussions and articles. We focus on intercultural exchange by promoting local and international archery events. TIFAM is the magazine that integrates all associations, their club work and achievements on the island of Ireland and abroad. We write for you and about you, while encouraging you to participate in discussions on topics that fire up the archery community.

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Just 3 discounted annual subscriptions left out of 12 – grab yours before they’re gone.Huge thank you to everyone who’s ...
14/12/2025

Just 3 discounted annual subscriptions left out of 12 – grab yours before they’re gone.

Huge thank you to everyone who’s already joined; you’re helping support a good cause: promoting archery and preserving its history here in Ireland. 🏹🇮🇪

TIFAM – Annual Printed Edition Subscription 🏹📖 Stay connected to the heart of Irish field archery all year long with a 12-month print subscription to TIFAM – Th

14/12/2025

Nowt like a Clout after Christmas.

Blow out the festive cobwebs with Wexford Archery
at our annual Clout Shoot on the 28th of December.

Sunday 10am
Fees: €5.00

at
Woodville House & Gardens
Mountelliot
New Ross
County Wexford
Y34WP93
Ireland

11/12/2025

TIFAM – Annual Printed Edition Subscription 🏹📖 Stay connected to the heart of Irish field archery all year long with a 12-month print subscription to TIFAM – Th

Free to read, my epic journey through the eastern philosophy of archery I had avoided for a long time… and then I sank i...
10/12/2025

Free to read, my epic journey through the eastern philosophy of archery I had avoided for a long time… and then I sank in deep. 🏹📚
In “Between Gāṇḍīva and Blackboard” I move from a grainy photo of a bamboo bow in Banaras, pinned over my desk in Portlaoise, to:

🕉️ A single Upaniṣadic line where Om becomes bow, the self becomes arrow, Brahman becomes target
⚔️ Arjuna’s shaking hands on the battlefield, his great bow Gāṇḍīva slipping away as he realises what his arrows will do
🧠 Śaṅkara saying the arrow and the target have always been one
🔥 Krishnamurti tearing up every safe “path” and turning the bow into an image of raw attention
💥 Gandhi speaking of truth as an arrow, while revolutionaries quote the same Gītā in defence of bombs and bullets
🏹 A young engineer from Pune telling me how he stopped fearing “bad arrows” and, in that surrender, finally shot clean

All of this unfolds through my own life here:
☔ the National Library of Ireland, where a foxed volume whispers “the creed of the A***n fighter” under that dangerous word “A***n”
🏡 a narrow Irish garden where I string my old beginner’s bow in the drizzle and learn, one clumsy arrow at a time, what I have been reading all these years

If you want:
➡️ Indian philosophy without incense fog,
➡️ archery without macho cosplay,
➡️ and a brutally honest look at what it means to aim at anything at all in this world—

—then this long essay is yours to steal an evening with. Free, of course. 🏹✨

The first bamboo bow that entered my life never breathed Indian heat; it lived inside a grainy photograph pinned above my crowded desk in Portlaoise, between a

10/12/2025

Laois Archery
Shot in the Dark
Saturday 13th of December

Laois Archery want to finish out the year with something a little different - so they've decided they're going to do something they've been dreaming of for a while.

Some unusual restrictions for this one - Juniors & above only, pre-registration essential, but it's all in the name of safety. You can find out more and sign up at the website!
https://laoisarchery.ie/next-laois-shoot/

-Fun Shoot –
Darkness, Marked Distances,
Two Arrow Round (1 x 18)

Fees:
Adult: €10
Child: €5

McDonald’s Forestry,
Clonkeen,
Portlaoise,
R32 X3FW

Co-ordinates:
53.0092 -7.3436

PreRegistration
https://laoisarchery.ie/next-laois-shoot/

🎯 TIFAM readers!Christmas limited offer just for you 🏹Get your annual subscription for only €68(regular €108 – you save ...
10/12/2025

🎯 TIFAM readers!

Christmas limited offer just for you 🏹

Get your annual subscription for only €68
(regular €108 – you save €40)

🎄 A perfect Christmas present for archers.
Only 12 subscriptions available at this price – first come, first served!

Subscribe here: https://tifam.ie/product/annual-subscription-to-the-paper-edition-of-tifam/

TIFAM – Annual Printed Edition Subscription 🏹📖 Stay connected to the heart of Irish field archery all year long with a 12-month print subscription to TIFAM – Th

10/12/2025
New to read at TIFAM ⚔️🏹Travel back to Rome before Christ, when legions trusted the sword and a storm of Parthian arrows...
09/12/2025

New to read at TIFAM ⚔️🏹
Travel back to Rome before Christ, when legions trusted the sword and a storm of Parthian arrows at Carrhae forced an empire to rethink war itself.
Legion squares, horse archers, broken pride – all in one read. 🐎🔥📜

Essay on Roman archery before Christ era, Cretan mercenaries, Parthian horse archers at Carrhae, and Rome’s shift from sword-focused legion tactics to the organised use of sagittarii across the early Empire.

🔥🏹 From Dongi Fires to Dongye Storms blurs the line between myth, metal and memory.A river hunter learning the first com...
02/12/2025

🔥🏹 From Dongi Fires to Dongye Storms blurs the line between myth, metal and memory.

A river hunter learning the first composite bow.
A Dongye girl stealing a black bow that can tilt empires.
Two modern writers drawing Korea’s horizon in a single arrow-flight.

🌊🇰🇷 Step into Baekdu winds, frontier forests, and Olympic echoes of the hwal.
Read the essay: “From Dongi Fires to Dongye Storms: Marking Korea’s Horizon” 📚✨

If you’d like, I can also give you one-sentence “quote-style” tasters pulled from the essay itself.

Journey from Dongi fires to Dongye storms through two Korean novels on archery, memory and power. Tracing bows from Baekdu prehistory to frontier Dongye, the essay links technology, gender, and empire in Korea’s long horizon of the bow.

Presenting the second chapter of Bowhunter!An unlucky, maybe cursed, forester is hoping to finally come upon the type of...
30/11/2025

Presenting the second chapter of Bowhunter!

An unlucky, maybe cursed, forester is hoping to finally come upon the type of game that will get him entry into the fabled Flint Castle.

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For over a century, the nation of Fohalin lived on borrowed time, thriving on the territory of a caged monster. Now, the deathly binds have been broken. 🐍💥

The gigantic Vainglory Typhon is free.

As the beast returns, it brings more than just obliteration. Fohalin's corrupt leadership shatters, leaving the devastated cities and terrified people to fend for themselves. 🏃‍♂️💨

In their place, an unlikely trio emerges from the chaos:
🙏 An excommunicated priest from a foreign land.
🏹 An unlucky and ungrateful hunter who sees a trophy in the beast.
🏴‍☠️ A pirate captain with a conscience, bound to the will of his ship.

They must now hunt a creature that doesn't just adapt to its environment—it forces the environment to adapt to its presence. 🌪️🌊

The hunt begins now.

The Mane, Sovereign Kingdom of Ebvren (The Barren State), City Capital Vrenki – Typhon Resurgence, Day 10 Whatever Ebvren, and by extension its capital city Vrenki, had to claim in terms of sovereignty, was beyond Fergus Reeves. If it wasn’t for its neighbours, Bravenasil to the north, his own h...

🎬 New film review by Martin SmallridgeMr and Mrs Perfect: Behind the Bow — step onto the shooting line with Mike & Gaby ...
30/11/2025

🎬 New film review by Martin Smallridge

Mr and Mrs Perfect: Behind the Bow — step onto the shooting line with Mike & Gaby Schloesser as they juggle elite archery, love, travel and a wide-awake baby. Dutch clouds, Olympic glare, arrows, history and the fragile idea of “perfection” in sport today.

📖 Free to read

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.

New piece arrived, for history lovers and midnight myth-hunters alike ⚔️📚Step into the Suffolk woods, where a young king...
29/11/2025

New piece arrived, for history lovers and midnight myth-hunters alike ⚔️📚

Step into the Suffolk woods, where a young king, a Viking army, and a watching wolf shape the making of St Edmund—part blood-soaked history, part living legend, all quietly haunted. 🐺🌲✨

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.

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