Hawking or faulconry was originally published in 1686 as part of the authors classic work the gentlemans recreation and is now considered an important milestone in the early history of falconry. Hawking or faulconry was originally published in 1686 as part of the authors classic work the gentlemans recreation and is now considered an important milestone in the early history of falconry first editions of this work are now extremely rare and consequently expensive we are now . Falconry is the ancient art of taking wild quarry with a trained bird of prey originally falconry was using a bird of prey as a tool for catching food for the table the gentry would go out for a days hawking with their birds but the day to day care and training of the birds was carried out by a residential falconer if the hunt was . Home history of falconry in ireland in his book falconry or hawking edited and transcribed by derry argue george tubervile refers to one french falconer by the name of william tardisse who had this to say about our goses but truly there is no goshawk more excellent than that which is bred in ireland in the north parts as in ulster