Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Olympia Theatre with old memories, stories and gossip, nights out and craic, music and sessions and regulars and characters. 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.
163 source leads · 2000-2022
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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 S0134 as a Publican's Licence (ordinary) - Theatre for THE OLYMPIA THEATRE at 72 DAME STREET AND 1-8 SYCAMORE STREET AND, 6-8 CRAMPTON COURT in DUBLIN CITY with OLYMPIA PRODUCTIONS UNLIMITED COMPANY as licensee.[1]
NIAH records the Olympia Theatre at 72 Dame Street, Crampton Court and Sycamore Street as a nationally rated building of architectural, artistic, cultural, historical and social special interest, with former names including Empire Palace Theatre and Star of Erin Music Hall.[2]
NIAH says the Star of Erin Music Hall was established behind the eighteenth-century house in 1879 for Dan Lowrey to designs by J.J. O'Callaghan, and that it was remodelled in 1897 as the Empire Palace Theatre of Varieties.[2]
The Irish Times wrote in 2006 that Connell's Monster Saloon on Dame Street was rebuilt in 1879 as the Star of Erin Music Hall and became the Olympia Theatre in 1923.[3]
The Irish Times reported in 2003 that the Olympia had 10-year planning permission to revamp and extend its protected-structure premises at 72 Dame Street, including restoration of the early nineteenth-century cast-iron canopy.[4]
Community memory
Archive time depth
22 years of archive-metadata distance across 162 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.
2010 · story
2002 · memory, story
2008 · 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.
overmatch_review
Boards.ie produces 163 readable matches for The Olympia Theatre, but the name or hit pattern is broad enough that PubHub should treat this as a source-mining queue before writing stronger lore. The links still preserve useful public memory leads.
characters
The character lane has 6 signals for The Olympia 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 Olympia Theatre has 162 dated source leads from 2000 to 2022, giving the page a 22-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 163 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 Olympia Theatre has 163 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, nights out and craic, music and sessions and regulars and characters. The strongest current lead points into "Imagine Dragons (Olympia Theatre, 22nd Aug)"; 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 6 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2010 · story · lead score 130
2002 · memory, story · lead score 128
2008 · story · lead score 122
2010 · characters · lead score 121
2009 · memory · lead score 121
2010 · characters · lead score 121
2009 · memory · lead score 121
2003 · characters, memory · lead score 120
2004 · characters · lead score 120
2005 · music and sessions, memory · lead score 113
High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.
Archive profile
The Olympia Theatre has 163 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, nights out and craic, music and sessions and regulars and characters. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue
Memory shape
Old memories, stories and gossip, nights out and craic, music and sessions and regulars and characters
Correction loop
If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.
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.
Nights out
Boards.ie memory links this pub with nights out, banter, sessions, or lively pub-going talk.
Music and sessions
Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.
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.
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Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Olympia Theatre with old memories, stories and gossip, nights out and craic, music and sessions and regulars and characters. 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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