The Irish Field Archery Monthly

The Irish Field Archery Monthly The Irish Field Archery Monthly is a first Irish NON PROFIT periodical dedicated to archery Thanks, TIFAM editorial Team and Admins. on [email protected]

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🌲🏹 Forest Linecraft — a walk of arrows through Irish woodsPeat underfoot, breeze in the string, light carries distance. ...
11/08/2025

🌲🏹 Forest Linecraft — a walk of arrows through Irish woods

Peat underfoot, breeze in the string, light carries distance. Slope shapes stance, wind writes drift, a steady anchor sings release. Boots read the ground, eyes weigh shade, the bow answers with patient power. Ireland offers lanes of alder, furze, and quarry echo. ✨☘️

This piece meditates on living fieldcraft: angle sense, distance memory, tuning that listens, breath that steadies. Peg to peg, arrow to arrow, the forest teaches grace and accuracy with craic in the mix. 🎯🌬️🧭

Step onto the course with us 👉 https://tifam.ie/forest-linecraft-field-archery-by-ear-and-eye/
🚶‍♂️🏹🌿

Explore field archery through Irish woods: wind, light, slope, footing shape each shot. Practical tuning meets lyrical craft—distance judging, anchor, fletching, stabilisers, brace height. A walk of arrows through peat and birdsong, aimed with heart and skill

🏹📖 TIFAM Issue 45in PDF ✨🔥72 pages of fresh stories, a bold new layout, and the heartbeat of our archery community ❤️🎯.F...
10/08/2025

🏹📖 TIFAM Issue 45in PDF ✨🔥

72 pages of fresh stories, a bold new layout, and the heartbeat of our archery community ❤️🎯.
From Hastings shield walls to Persian sands, from Rilke’s bowstring to Gary O’Mahony’s quiet focus and Peter Gilmore’s resilience—this issue carries memory, craft, and spirit. 🌍🏹

We share the joy of Dunbrody, the colour of Red Fox, the pride of UKIFAC, and the artistry of James Byrne 🎨.
A full-page tribute honours our friends at Clout Archery, whose generosity shapes the soul of the sport 🤝💚.

📲 Ready to read now for all with digital membership.
📰 Also available in print at TIFAM's newsagent.

👉 Read & enjoy here: https://tifam.ie/tifam-issue-45-pdf/

TIFAM Issue 45 PDF is now live—discover dynamic new layouts, rich archery features, and vibrant storytelling. Unlock more with membership perks and print discounts.

🎯📚 TIFAM Issue 45 Has Arrived! 🏹✨This issue brings a fresh new layout and 72 pages filled with voices, stories, and the ...
06/08/2025

🎯📚 TIFAM Issue 45 Has Arrived! 🏹✨

This issue brings a fresh new layout and 72 pages filled with voices, stories, and the enduring heartbeat of our archery community. Each piece now lives in its own space—boxed, balanced, and built to breathe—so words can land deeper and stay longer.

Inside, we journey from Hastings to Persia, follow the arrow through the minds of St. Augustine and Rilke, and sit with Gary O’Mahony and Peter Gilmore, who remind us what resilience feels like when life tightens the string. We walk alongside the joy of Dunbrody, the colour of Red Fox, the pride of UKIFAC, and the craft of James Byrne, whose brush flies like a bow.

We share a full-page tribute to our dear friends at Clout Archery, whose quiet generosity continues to shape the soul of our sport.

❤️ This issue matters more than ever. Due to the festival cancellation (outside our control), TIFAM has lost a vital stream of support. We're now facing serious financial strain—and printing may soon become impossible without your help.

🛒 If you believe in what we do, please consider taking out a hard copy subscription or an online membership. It’s easy, and it keeps the pages turning. Every bit helps.

👉 Subscribe here: https://tifam.ie/tifam-newsagent/
👉 Or take online membership here: https://tifam.ie/membership-levels/
Together, we hold the line.


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🏹💀 The bow remembers everything. In “An Unnatural History of the Bow,” ✍️ R. Marceau Minvelle uncovers a lineage carved ...
05/08/2025

🏹💀 The bow remembers everything. In “An Unnatural History of the Bow,” ✍️ R. Marceau Minvelle uncovers a lineage carved from bone, blood, and brilliance—where every arrow flies with the weight of history. 📜🔥

🦴 The war archer emerges, body reshaped by strain—arms thickened, spines curved, joints marked by purpose. These were no graceful hunters—they were living engines of force. 💪⚔️

🐂 The composite bow breathes through biology—horn, sinew, fish glue, and spirit. Workshop scents of scorched hide and blood mingle with whispered chants and sharpened edge. 🔨🧪

🐍 Poisoned arrows speak with the voice of ritual. San beetles, dart frogs, rattlesnake liver—all crafted into death with care and chant. ☠️🌿 Each tip carries myth, meaning, and intention.

📅 The English crown moulds society through archery—issuing laws, banning sports, forging the yeoman with threats and targets. 🎯📏 The bow becomes a lever of state, a weapon of order and resistance alike.

⚔️ In Ireland, it enters as stranger—first with Viking sails, then Norman boots, and finally colonial decree. Yew staves arrive in ship holds, each one a message written in grain and pressure. 🚢🌲

🧊 Three deaths illuminate its arc: Ötzi felled in silence, Richard struck beneath chicken-fed stone, Sebastian pierced then risen. Every arrow lands with story. 🕯️🩸👑

🎯 Today’s bow sits clean and composed—but its ancestors shout through every curve.



A darkly fascinating history of the bow—from warped war-archer skeletons to poisoned arrows and colonial law. Explore archery’s brutal evolution, strange materials, and its role in shaping warfare, society, and myth across cultures and centuries.

Archers, here it is!The conclusion to War of the Feathers, where the aftermath of this conflict is pulled apart, and its...
01/08/2025

Archers, here it is!

The conclusion to War of the Feathers, where the aftermath of this conflict is pulled apart, and its wounds are slow to form scars.

Thank you to those who have been following this story over the past months. It means a great deal to me on a personal level, and I hope you have enjoyed this tale.

Yes, there is more to come, as Evander's story will continue. This tale, and his part in TPA: Orion's Legacy will come together for his next adventure.

However my next project is Bowhunter, coming in at the start of September - for those who read The Phoenix Archer, this story focuses on aftermath of the surfacing of the gigantic Vainglory Typhon, and a hunter hired to cull it.

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, leg...

🏹📖 Essay III: The Weight of Proximity on Presence, Flesh and Vanishing 🌫️✨— Third reflection from the New Ross Library L...
30/07/2025

🏹📖 Essay III: The Weight of Proximity on Presence, Flesh and Vanishing 🌫️✨
— Third reflection from the New Ross Library Lecture Series

We began with the mystery of archery’s vanishing from the Irish landscape—its quiet fading, then reawakening with the Viking sails. ⚔️🌊
We turned to the fierce poise of Ireland’s 19th-century women archers, whose grace and resolve restored the bow to living memory. 🎯🌿
Now, the arc bends back further still—into the ancient hush of a world before the bowstring ever sang. Into the Neanderthal hand, the flint edge, the breath-close presence of raw encounter. 🪨🔥

🧠💫 What shaped that early gesture? What truth lives in the silence before the arrow?
Step into the third path of this unfolding journey.

🔗 Read it here: https://tifam.ie/the-weight-of-proximity-on-presence-flesh-and-vanishing/

Neanderthals, early archery, Irish history, Viking archers, flint tools, ancestral hunting, prehistoric weapons, New Ross Library, Women archers, 19th century Ireland, archery origins, Pleistocene presence, archaeology, traditional archery, bow history, stone tools, hunter-gatherers, ancestral techn...

🎯 The TIFAM website is back online! 🙌 Apologies for the earlier inconvenience. 🛠️ Expect exciting new articles tonight—s...
30/07/2025

🎯 The TIFAM website is back online! 🙌 Apologies for the earlier inconvenience. 🛠️ Expect exciting new articles tonight—stay tuned! ✍️📚

Discover TIFAM – Ireland’s only print and online magazine dedicated to traditional and field archery. Read compelling stories, expert tips, coaching insights, and event coverage from Ireland and beyond. Join a vibrant community of archers preserving heritage, sport, and spirit.

Archers! The final part of War of the Feathers is here!Well, the Epilogue is still to come... But, here is the conclusio...
27/07/2025

Archers! The final part of War of the Feathers is here!

Well, the Epilogue is still to come...

But, here is the conclusion to the battle that has shorn its way through Evander Penrose and devastated his spirit. This is the final engagement that will see an end to the battle.

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…

📣🎯 FINAL CALL – TIFAM Youth Cup of Merit 🏆— Nominations close 1st August! ⏳Dear clubs, although the TIFAM All Ireland Fe...
20/07/2025

📣🎯 FINAL CALL – TIFAM Youth Cup of Merit 🏆
— Nominations close 1st August! ⏳

Dear clubs, although the TIFAM All Ireland Festival has been canceled, the TIFAM Youth Cup of Merit carries on with pride and purpose! 🌿🏹

This is your last reminder – get your nominations in by 1st August to recognise the heart, effort, and growth of your young archers. 🏅

📨 Send all nominations directly to Andrew.
📍We’ll present the award at an IFAF shoot at the end of August or early September — venue and details coming soon.

🔗 Full info here: https://tifam.ie/tifam-youth-merit-cup/

💥 PLEASE SHARE!!! Let’s celebrate youth, community, and the joy of archery. 💚

Now entering its second year, the TIFAM Youth Merit Cup continues to celebrate the spirit, dedication, and contribution of young archers across Ireland. Unlike performance-based awards, the Youth Merit Cup recognises those aged 10–18 who go beyond scores and medals. This is about honouring the you...

🔥⚔️ A rebel’s end, a kingdom forever changed... 📜🩸— From Marceau MinvelleSimon de Montfort, the fierce reformer and fath...
16/07/2025

🔥⚔️ A rebel’s end, a kingdom forever changed... 📜🩸
— From Marceau Minvelle

Simon de Montfort, the fierce reformer and father of England’s first true parliament, stood tall on the fields of Evesham. Swords closed in. His banner flew until the final breath. A body broken, a spirit awakened. 👁️🗡️👣

They struck with steel, yet his name lived. They scattered his flesh, yet the people gathered his memory. His death breathed life into a legacy of justice and courage. 🙏👑⚖️

🕯️ One arrow may shine in legend, though many blades carved his final hour.
🎯 His truth echoes through the commons and in every voice that demands a seat at the table.

📚 Step into the storm. Read the tale. Carry the fire.


Simon de Montfort died in blood and fury at Evesham, yet his legacy rose from the ditch they cast him in. Rebel, reformer, martyr to the commons—his story winds through betrayal, slaughter, and the birth of England’s first parliament. A death that still echoes.

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