Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Bord Gais Energy Theatre with old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and atmosphere. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
24 source leads · 2002-2015
Read source trailFrom the record · Verified background
Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref 1001412 as a Publican's Licence (ordinary) - Theatre for THE BORD GAIS ENERGY THEATRE at GRAND CANAL HARBOUR in DUBLIN CITY with CROWNWAY ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED as licensee.[1]
The Irish Times reported in 2014 that John and Bernie Gallagher acquired the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin's south Docklands through Crownway Entertainment for about EUR28 million.[2]
The same Irish Times report described the venue as a 2,111-seat theatre designed by Daniel Libeskind and the centrepiece of the urban quarter at Grand Canal Square.[2]
The Irish Times also reported that the theatre was developed and launched in 2010 at a cost of EUR80 million.[2]
In a separate 2014 Irish Times report, Harry Crosbie said the BGE Theatre, formerly the Grand Canal Theatre, had opened in March 2010 and had traded profitably from its first day.[3]
Community memory
Archive time depth
13 years of archive-metadata distance across 23 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Stories and local colour
The Boards.ie trail has story-shaped signals for this pub: odd details, gossip, atmosphere, nights out or local colour that may be useful leads for a fuller memory page.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives The Bord Gais Energy Theatre 24 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
2006 · memory, story
2008 · memory, story, oddities and colour
2007 · story
This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.
PubHub read of the archive
These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.
story_gossip
Boards.ie gives The Bord Gais Energy Theatre 24 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.
characters
The character lane has 2 signals for The Bord Gais Energy Theatre: regulars, staff-memory, crowds, habits, or the social feel of the room. PubHub keeps this as labelled forum memory and uses source review before turning any named-person fragment into stronger copy.
time_depth
The Bord Gais Energy Theatre has 23 dated source leads from 2002 to 2015, giving the page a 13-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 24 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.
Story leads
The Bord Gais Energy Theatre has 24 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "Do we need a mid sized (7-8,000 capacity) venue?"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories. The character lane is especially useful here, with 2 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2006 · memory, story · lead score 135
2008 · memory, story, oddities and colour · lead score 125
2009 · memory · lead score 121
2010 · characters · lead score 121
2007 · story · lead score 119
2010 · characters · lead score 121
2009 · characters · lead score 110
Archive profile
The Bord Gais Energy Theatre has 24 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and atmosphere. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
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Memory shape
Old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and atmosphere
Correction loop
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V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Local colour
Boards.ie memory links this pub with odd details, local colour, and the kind of fragments that make pub pages more alive.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Archive source trail
These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
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2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82
2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Bord Gais Energy Theatre with old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and atmosphere. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.
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