Stonyhurst College James Joyce's Ulysses) were educated at the school, (as were the sons of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh). George Archer-Shee, at the centre of Terence Rattigan's play "The Winslow Boy", is an alumnus. The school runs its own publication company, St Omer's Press, which publishes religious literature, and first began when the college was located at St Omer in Flanders. Pupils are required to participate in games on a regular basis. The school plays rugby union and other sporting activities are on offer, and since turning fully co-educational, hockey and rounders have widened the sports programme. Rugby has played a
Martin Archer Shee and a second part followed in 1809. Lord Byron spoke well of it in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers". Shee published another small volume of verse in 1814, entitled "The Commemoration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems", but this was less successful. He also produced a tragedy, "Alasco", set in Poland. The play was accepted at Covent Garden, but was refused a licence, on the grounds that it contained treasonable allusions, and Shee angrily resolved to make his appeal to the public. He carried out his threat in 1824, but "Alasco" was still on the list of unacted