Who is Maggie Choo ?

A beautiful young girl from the countryside started in life begging and singing in the streets of Shanghai. Soon she was discovered by a cabaret owner who made her the star act of his famed establishment. Courted by many men and adventurers she fell in love with a handsome Japanese officer but their passionate love affair led to his demise – at Maggie’s own hands. She was a rebel at heart opening many establishment’s, deifying General Mao, she went on the run throughout the 1930’s, she fled Shanghai in 1937 and travelled to Bangkok, then to Singapore, St Petersburg, Marrakech, Munich, Barcelona, Paris, London and finally she arrived in Limerick City. She hid on trains, coaxed her way onto buses and took endless boats. Despite her adventurous life to date, the story of Maggie Choo was only getting started.

And thus the legend began…