AT the age of 60, Belfast academic Derek McCormick has literally added a new string to his bow. He has retired from his job as a cancer researcher at Queen's University to become a full time violin ...

To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very cool, but nuts. But for some, the idea is captivating: as it was, and ...

OUT in the open, where the air smells of grass and earth and every shot counts, a bow is only as good as the string that drives it. It may look like a simple cord, stretched taut between two limbs, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Robin Hood, the forest-dwelling vigilante and nemesis of the Sheriff of Nottingham, has received yet another boost to ...