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With the long awaited and welcome return of live entertainment, an exciting event like no other is on its way to venues across the country. The Iron Annie Cabaret will be travelling the country in style, with an impressive 15 dates scheduled this autumn across every province in Ireland. A second leg of the tour will take place in March 2022, with a further 10 dates in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. An experience unlike anything the theatre has ever seen, it will appeal to music fans as much as to book lovers and theatre goers.

This is the last column for 2020. I remember writing early in 2020 what a satisfactory feel there was to the year 2020, a sense that somehow this was a year that would herald untold promise.

Nora’s last visit to Galway in April 1922 did not go well. Galway, as well as the country, was caught up in a deadly Civil War. The anti -Treaty forces had occupied the Connaught Rangers’ Barracks, Renmore, while the pro- Treaty forces occupied the Great Southern Hotel. The Galway to Dublin train was regularly fired upon from the barracks. There were sporadic gun fights around the Custom House, and the Masonic hall, as both sides struggled for possession. It was a dangerous time and people were fearful.

‘Well what do you have to say to Jim now after all our little squabbles he could not live without me for a month can you imagine my joy when I received a telegram from London a week after Jim and georgie on their way’…….wrote Nora in her unpunctuated flow of words, to her partner’s sister Eileen from her mother’s home in Bowling Green, in July 1912.

Castlebar Musical and Dramatic Society is delighted to present the all-time family favourite musical ‘Annie’ from March 5 – 7 at 8pm nightly in St Mary’s Hall, GMIT, Castlebar, with an additional matinee performance on March 7 at 2.30pm. Tiered seating is an exciting new addition to St Mary’s Hall, GMIT this year. Tickets are available online now at www.cmds.ie and from Kilkelly Travel, Market Square, Castlebar or from any cast member.

A Mayo woman won prizes totalling €37,000 when she appeared on the National Lottery TV game show Winning Streak last Saturday.

Auditions for Castlebar Musical and Dramatic Society’s fifth musical production, Annie will take place in the GMIT campus, Castlebar on Tuesday, October 8.

This wintry photograph of part of Salthill was probably taken during the war as there are no vehicle tracks in the snow, indeed there are no vehicles to be seen. The shop on the right was built by a Miss Burke who came here from Castlerea in 1935. It was a grocery and sweet shop with advertisements on the wall outside for plug tobacco.

NESSA O'MAHONEY is primarily a poet, the author of three well received collections, and a verse novel. Much of her previous writing has interrogated the subjects of family and history, often dealing in quite innovative ways with how the two intersect.

Annie and Duncan are a reasonably happy couple in their late thirties living in a seaside town in England. Duncan has an obsession - he hosts a fan page for nineties musician Tucker Crowe. Crowe is a kind of Jeff Buckley like singer who disappeared after recording one great album - Juliet, Naked.