Monthly Archives: February 2024
Stonyhurst Memories
Stonyhurst Memories by Jimmy Burns Here follows some further Stonyhurst memories of my own prompted by my contemporary John Mulholland and his thoughtful memoir Ferulas and Thuribles– “Although we were all in it together, each individual journey was different.” World Cup 1966 -my first year at Stonyhurst. As I write in one of my football books , La Premier League ( published last year in Spanish , English version due out towards the end of this year) I was in London and recall going to the Royal …
Ferulas & Thuribles
My review of John Mulholland’s book ‘Ferulas & Thuribles.’ A worthwhile Stonyhurst memoir Memory may fail us, not least as we enter our twilight years, but as luminaries such as Marcel Proust and T.S Eliot recognised, we carry within us our past, and parts of it can resurface unconsciously, and take shape if mind and body allow us that extra mile in which to reflect and discern. As Eliot wrote in Little Gidding, this use of memory is for liberation-‘not least of love but expanding of love beyond desire , …
