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Coliseum Theatre

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    From the also excellent Dictionary of irish Architects: Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HENRY STREET, NO. 024 (COLISEUM OR PREMIER PALACE THEATRE) Date: 1913-15 Nature: New theatre. With Francis Bergin. Opened, 5 Apr 1915. Destroyed in 1916. Refs: Drawings in OPW, formerly Cabinet E; IB 55, 7 Jun,16 Aug,13 Sep 1913, 383,536,595; 56, 27 Mar,10 Apr 1915, 141,168; Freeman's Journal, 17 Mar 1915. Is the Freeman's Journal online?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    24 Henry street is now this Champion Sports store, and is indeed directly opposite Moore Street, here on the OS 25" map. It's all wrong for this picture, which is on a street corner with tram tracks (Henry street had no trams).
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Browsed through 17 March 1915 edition of the Freeman's Journal but could find no mention of the theatre. However, this is the description of the (3,000 seater) Coliseum in the Irish Times on Wednesday, 31 March 1915: "... The main entrance will be in Henry street, where there is an imposing facade, designed in Neo-Grec style, executed in white glazed Carrara ware. The iron and glass verandah projecting over the footway has been designed to harmonise with this facade, and the glass to this and thw whole of the windows will be in coloured decorative leaded work. " Does that sound like a description of this building? And could it possibly hold 3,000?!
  • Ikatadmirer said:
    Clearly the Cork Coliseum, see reference to Cork ales and "Opera House"
  • Niall McAuley said:
    McCurtain Street, Cork, (formerly King Street), site of the Coliseum Picture Theatre, on the other hand, did have tram tracks

Let's fiddle while Rome (and everywhere else) burns

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Oh dear!

    The Coliseum opened in April 1915, and was destroyed in the 1916 Easter Rising - www.archiseek.com/1915-coliseum-theatre-henry-st-dublin/
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Heaps of history here - earlyirishcinema.com/category/picture-houses/coliseum-the...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    www.kilmainhamtales.ie/courage-under-fire.php
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Joe Peterman's Hello! Dublin ran for one week - Monday 6th to Saturday 11th September, 1915. This was the opening night poster. According to the [advert in the] Evening Herald, the Revue was "proclaimed by Press and Public to be one of the finest ever presented in Dublin". This hook of "the only revue reviewing your own city" was the selling point.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Would love to see a poster for the following week at the Coliseum. They had Rameses the Wonderful, and his Egyptian Temple of Mysteries. Plus Berzac and his Jackass! (Again from the Evening Herald)