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72 DAME STREET AND 1-8 SYCAMORE STREET AND, 6-8 CRAMPTON COURT, Dublin

Address72 DAME STREET AND 1-8 SYCAMORE STREET AND, 6-8 CRAMPTON COURT
CountyDublin
Licence refS0134

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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]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50020056 · 2015-04-02
  3. Irish Times · "The final curtain" · 2006-01-12
  4. Irish Times · "Ten-year plan for Olympia" · 2003-12-04

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