40 thoughts on “No One Can Hear You Screen”

  1. Spaghetti Hoop

    I’ll be rattling on about all three to the grand-childer one day, and the pints in Bowes after the movie. Still, that part of town needs a good make-over, so here’s to progress and good urban planning. I hope.

  6. Andrew

    Went see Betty Blue there back in the day. It showed good films mostly, I went there fairly regularly over the years.
    It’s a pity to see so many cinemas gone though,but times change I suppose I remember going to the Cameo and Curzon in middle Abbey street the original Lighthouse was there too as of course was the Adelphi. All gone in my lifetime and I’m not that old. I sound like bleedin Noel Purcell the way I’m going on.
    What I miss most is the choice, there was always great choice in the types of films to see. I forgot to mention The Green cinema where Stephen’s Green shopping centre is now. I saw Rocky 3 there!!
    Dublin has changed a lot, you forget what buildings were in a place when they are knocked.
    I have a feeling Dublin will get hollowed out though. Too expensive already. More offices will be built and less people of spending age will be around.
    Tourists at the weekends and that will be it. Like a lot of European cities.

      1. Andrew

        I won’t miss the building itself.
        The globalists and our EU overlords who are driving that agenda will be happy. Ireland signed sovereignty away many years ago.

    2. pedeyw

      I saw the Aladdin in the Adelphi for my Birthday, it seemed very luxurious to child sized me. At least The Stella is back up and running in Rathmines.

      1. Andrew

        Yeah but the Stella is like €20 a ticket and full of middle aged hipster twats. Or so I’m told :) .Owned by the Pressup group which seems to own everything now.

        1. shortforBob

          Cineworld charges as much as €19.80 for things like IMAX 3D and 4XD and Stella charges €19 a ticket.

          Haven’t been myself, but the idea of having a proper meal while watching a film sounds good to me.

    3. Bertie Blenkinsop

      I saw The Commitments in Janelle Cinema in Finglas bitd.
      You could bring in two litres with you then, everyone was locked and every time Ken McCluskey came on screen he got a huge cheer.

          1. Andrew

            Excellent Bertie!
            “The Centre was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Minister for Labour Bertie Ahern.”
            Lord Mayor and a Minister at the same time! No wonder he didn’t have time to open a bank account!

  7. Junkface

    Yeah, that is sad to see. Part of our childhood, I saw the first Indiana Jones movie there. The burger place next door had a cool neon sign as I remember. Like something from Back to the Future 2.

    1. Joxer

      the metro burger sign has been taken into care by dublighostsign i do believe . it was mentioned on insta or Twitter recently but i cannot find the post…

    1. Junkface

      Jesus, those older buildings were lovely. That street used to look great! They really did a terrible job in the 50’s and 60’s all over Dublin. Tearing down lovely Georgian buildings and replacing them with dirty grey boxes, that eventually became the worst eyesores of the city.

      1. pip G

        the fifth Theatre Royal, Dublin closed its doors on 30 June 1962. The building was subsequently demolished and replaced by a twelve-storey office block, Hawkins House, headquarters of Ireland’s Department of Health. …Bunch of lunatics…

      1. Pip

        Theatre Royal faced onto Hawkins St, so it seems the cinema is/was on the site of the Regal Rooms restaurant, and then there was more building on what is now the space in front, brining one up to the corner of Townsend St.

        1. Cian

          The sun is coming from the left of the picture. So the left side is southerly… so we are looking west.

  10. Daisy Chainsaw

    Saw many films in there. It was so handy because the bus to take me home was on Hawkins St. It was less mainstream than Adelphi/Carlton/Savoy, but less arthouse than the Lighthouse and then there was its sister cinema across the water the Screen on O’Connell Bridge.

    1. Paulus

      My pubescent self used to blag my way into the Film Centre (on O’Connell Bridge) and The Academy on Pearse Street to see the softest porn imaginable. I’d ask for the ticket in a deep voice. The woman in the box office would almost snigger – they’d let anyone in provided you weren’t in a pram!

  12. pip G

    the fifth Theatre Royal, Dublin closed its doors on 30 June 1962. The building was subsequently demolished and replaced by a twelve-storey office block, Hawkins House, headquarters of Ireland’s Department of Health. …Bunch of lunatics…

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