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The first Ormonde Cinema was built and opened in 1954, seating 980 people with a large car park to the side. It was completely demolished in 1978, the site being occupied by the AIB Bank at Stillorgan Plaza. The new Ormonde Cinema opened in the early 1980s as a smaller multi-screen venue.
The Ormonde cinema in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, was used for the scene where Brendan goes to see Once Upon a Time in the West, and the Savoy and the Ambassador on O'Connell Street served as cinema exteriors.
In 1963 the club purchased a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-acre site behind the Ormonde Cinema as a permanent home pitch for themselves, Páirc de Burca, and in 1965 the adjoining Glenalbyn House was bought. In April 1966, Crokes hurling club joined up with Kilmacud football club. [ 1 ]
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The company bears some resemblance to the largest Irish cinema chain, the Ward Anderson group, in that it is a family owned business run by members of two families, in this case the O'Gorman family (who ran the Ormonde Cinema in Stillorgan) and the Spurling family who are also involved in rural cinemas, albeit having closed one (Enniscorthy ...
Ormond Beach Planning Board to discuss former Regal Cinemas property during a meeting on Dec. 9, 7p.m at city hall.
[21] [22] The cinema featured in "The Passion of St Tibulus" was the Ormonde Cinema, Greystones, County Wicklow [23] and "The Field", the location for Funland in "'Good Luck, Father Ted'", is in Portrane, North County Dublin. The 'Very Dark Caves' featured in "The Mainland" were the Aillwee caves in the Burren, County Clare.
The cinema used was the Ormonde in Greystones, County Wicklow (It continued to operate until July 2007, when it closed due to commercial difficulties). [3] One of the writers' early ideas for the series was that every priest in the world knows every other priest personally; this idea is introduced in the opening scene, with Cuba's Father Hernandez.