The Gala Cinema was designed by J.F. McCormack and opened on 23rd November 1955. The sizeable auditorium seated 1,850 meaning the cinema was one of the largest suburban cinemas in Dublin.
A new cinema by Odeon (Ireland) Ltd. to replace the former Phibsborough Cinema on the same site near Doyles Corner.
Opened late 1936 and was designed to seat 1250 patrons. Opened by the Lord Mayor Alfie Byrne,
A massive suburban cinema with 1000 seats when it opened in 1955. Closed in 1976 and used as a furniture store for forty-odd years before closing.
Constructed as a cinema after the destruction of the area in the 1916 Easter Rising.
A conversion of a former shop by architect Rudolf Maximilian Butler into a small cinema with 400 seats.
Suburban cinema with its main entrance fronted by a cast iron and glass porch flanked by two commercial units.
According to the Irish Builder, the facade was “finished in red brick and chiselled limestone dressings,
Opened in November 1936 and closed in 1970. A large auditorium designed to seat 1600,
The Capitol Theatre, located just off O’Connell Street, Dublin, began life on 10 August 1920 as the La Scala Theatre and Opera House.
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