Town Hall Theatre (Galway)
Amharclann Halla na Cathrach | |
 The courthouse, as seen from the Town Hall Theatre | |
  Town Hall Theatre Location within County Galway | |
| Standort | 1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Republic of Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°16′34″N 9°03′14″W / 53.276177°N 9.053985°W |
| Public transit | Galway railway station |
| Capacity | 393 (Main Auditorium) 52 (Studio Space) |
| Opened | October 1995 |
| Website | |
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The Town Hall Theatre (Irish: Amharclann Halla na Cathrach)[1] is a theatre in Galway, Ireland.
History
The building which accommodates the Town Hall Theatre was designed by Alexander Hay in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1825. It featured a tetrastyle portico formed by Doric order columns supporting an entablature.[2]
It served first as a courthouse and later as a town hall. In the 1950s, the building was converted into a cinema and was used for film screenings until it fell into disrepair in the 1990s. Galway Corporation (now Galway City Council), with the assistance of a grant from the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, undertook a major refurbishment of the building between 1993 and 1995 and it reopened as a municipal theatre in October 1995.[3]
The venue attracts audiences in excess of 100,000 annually (close to 2 million since being officially re-opened on 1 February 1996) making it the most successful theatre of its size in Ireland.[4]
It is used as a venue for several festivals annually including Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway Film Fleadh and more. Charlie Byrne's hosts a pop-up bookshop there each year during Cúirt.[5]
References
- ^ "Front Page". tuairisc. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "Town Hall Theatre, Courthouse Square, Court Avenue, Townparks". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ "History". Town Hall Theatre. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "All about the Town Hall Theatre in Galway". tht.ie. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
- ^ "About Charlie Byrne's". Archived from the original on 19 May 2014.
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