Pub details
- Address
- MARKET SQUARE, SMITHFIELD
- County
- Dublin
- Licence reference
- 1003697
LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA
MARKET SQUARE, SMITHFIELD, Dublin
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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref 1003697 as a Publican's Licence (ordinary) - Theatre for LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA at MARKET SQUARE, SMITHFIELD in DUBLIN CITY with E. P. LIGHT HOUSE LIMITED as licensee.[1]
The Irish Times reported that the Light House cinema in Smithfield originally opened in March 2008, closed in 2011 after a High Court order, and was due to reopen in January 2012 under Element Pictures management.[2]
TheJournal.ie reported that the reopened Light House was to be used for Jameson Dublin International Film Festival screenings, and that the previous closure had cost 20 jobs.[3]
In 2018, TheJournal.ie reported that Call Me By Your Name had become Light House's longest-running film after running at the Smithfield cinema for 30 weeks.[4]
An Irish Times profile of Element Pictures said the company moved into exhibition in 2012 through Dublin's Light House Cinema and later added Galway's Palas.[5]
Sources (5)
- Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
- Irish Times · "Ribbon cut on reopened Light House" · 2012-01-17
- TheJournal.ie · "Reopened Light House Cinema to be used as Dublin Film Festival venue" · 2012-01-13
- TheJournal.ie · "How a bittersweet coming-of-age love story became the Light House's longest running film ever" · 2018-06-02
- Irish Times · "Element Pictures: 'We're very ambitious and glass half empty people'" · 2019-03-07
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