Carlow Little Theatre Society are returning to the stage of the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, with their production of Sebastian Barry’s ‘The Steward Of Christendom’, a profoundly moving story of family, love and loss.

Set in 1932 in the Baltinglass county home, Thomas Dunne, the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, looks back on his life as he tries to keep his ghosts at bay with reimagined memories of his daughters, Annie, Maud, and Dolly, and his son, Willie, interspersed by interactions between Dunne and Mrs O’Dea and Smith, two attendants from the home. It is a tale of family running concurrently with Irish history, spanning British colonial rule through to the early days of Irish independence.