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This is a list of Irish theatres and theatre companies past and present. It includes organizations of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 2016, Ireland's Cyprus Avenue premiered at the Royal Court Theatre. [7] It was awarded the 2017 Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play, and the 2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama. The play then transferred to The Public Theater, New York City, [8] the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, [9] and the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast.
In 2004 the theatre announced a fundraising campaign to redevelop the theatre on its existing site. In June 2007 a £1m donation by Northern Irish businessman Dr Martin Naughton kickstarted the development. Naughton's donation was the largest in Northern Ireland arts history.
The Irish News is the only independently owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister. [4] It merged with the Belfast Morning News in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been The Irish News and Belfast Morning News.
A digital production was produced for the Irish Arts Centre in New York during the COVID pandemic. The production then went on to the Chiswick Theatre London where it won an LPT award and secured two Offies nominations and continued on to the Minack before finishing its run at the MAC theatre Belfast. [5]
The Belfast News Letter, 1862) [2] a music hall fit for the production of any composition, and for the reception of any artist, however eminent (The Northern Whig, 14 May 1862) [3] In 1902 the hall was purchased by Belfast City Council (then named the Belfast Corporation) for £13,500 and it has been used as a public hall ever since. [4]
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (An Chultúrlann) is an Irish language cultural centre in The Gaeltacht Quarter and is located on the Falls Road, Belfast.Opened in 1991, the centre underwent renovation in 2010 and was opened the following year by then Irish President Mary McAleese.
The Grand Opera House is a theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by the most prolific theatre architect of the period, Frank Matcham. It opened on 23 December 1895. According to the Theatres Trust, the "magnificent auditorium is probably the best surviving example in the United Kingdom of the oriental style applied to theatre ...