The first of three Theatre Royals on this site. In 1820, theatre impresario Henry Harris bought a site in Hawkins Street and built the 2,000 seat Albany New Theatre on it at a cost of £50,000,
Recently given a new glass and steel canopy overhanging a much widened footpath on a mainly pedestrianised street,
Remodeled in 1897, this is, internally, the most elaborate of the remaining theatres in Dublin. A plain facade with a cast-iron canopy hides an elaborate interior complete with its gods.
Constructed by 1886 as the Leinster Hall after a fire in 1879 destroyed the Theatre Royal on this site.
The second Theatre Royal but on the same Hawkins Street site as the first, opened on December 13,
The Abbey first opened its doors to the public on 27 December 1904 in the former Mechanics’
Now demolished, but built as a variety theatre in 1844, rebuilt in 1909, and later used by the Abbey Players after the Abbey Theatre was destroyed in a fire in 1951.
This theatre was opened in April 1915, Easter Monday 1915 to be exact,
The third Theatre Royal opened on September 23, 1935 in Hawkins Street. Designed by English architect Leslie Norton in conjunction with Dublin firm Scott &
The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 as the Irish National Theatre Company. After purchasing the Mechanics Institute on Marlborough Street,
