Wild Geese flying home

Kilcullen residents from the 60s and 70s will be interested to know that Jim and Lucy Motherway plan a visit from Perth, Australia, during the second half of September.

Jim was an enthusiastic member of the Kilcullen Drama Group, and the Motherway family is still very active in drama in Perth, with the local Irish Theatre Players, founded in 1981. As well as contemporary Irish plays, the group puts on productions from the works of Synge, Lady Gregory, O’Casey, Friel and Hugh Leonard in addition to plays by such theatre luminaries as JB Keane, Dermot Bolger and Bernard Farrell.

Jim has produced plays in Perth which include 'The Playboy of the Western World', 'The Field', and 'Sharon's Grave', all of which he would be familiar with from his Kilcullen Drama Group days. He also still acts regularly.

His son Ivan and daughter Annie are also regular performers on the boards in Perth.

Jim, formerly an Army officer, also established a holiday business called Funtrek, where he led small groups of people on holidays to what were then exotic and hard-to-get-to places.

Brian Byrne.