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Irish Multiplex Cinemas (or the IMC Cinema Group) is a cinema chain in Ireland. It operates cinemas throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was part of the Ward Anderson company until 2013, when it was split between IMC and Omniplex Cinema Group. [1] The typical cinema owned by IMC has between five and ten screens.
It covers a number of art forms, including classical music and performance. Playwright and poet Seamus Heaney gave a reading of some of his works during the inaugural event. [1] As of 2016, the event included theatre, dance, visual arts, and other forms of music and literature. The festival commissions works for the event locally and from ...
The cinema had one screen [7] and was said to seat 1600 patrons when it first opened, [8] though this number appears to have fluctuated over the years, and was just over 1400 in 1953. [ 9 ] In 1953, Robert McLeish died, [ 10 ] and on 29 July 1959 the cinema closed [ 11 ] and was converted into the Austral Super Stall Market. [ 12 ]
The Ambassador Cinema was in use, on and off, as a cinema from about 1910 to 1999, and is now a music venue at the top of O'Connell Street, Dublin. The first cinema in Ireland, the Volta , was opened at 45 Mary Street, Dublin, in 1909 by the novelist James Joyce .
The modern Kilkenny People was first published in 1895. It is a weekly paper. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the Kilkenny People had an average weekly circulation of 17,578 for the first six months of 2006. [76] It is printed by the Kilkenny People Group at Purcellsinch and the group also publishes a number of other regional ...
Tara CEO Morgan O'Sullivan attempted to attract major international film and television productions to Ireland, but several planned MTM productions failed to materialise, and when MTM was sold to the UK company Television South in 1988, the MTM stake was sold to Ardmore Studios International, a company owned equally by U2 manager Paul ...
In August 2015, Vue International acquired JT Bioscopen, the second-largest cinema chain in the Netherlands, bringing Vue's number of sites to over 200. [13] In June 2018, Vue acquired the Irish operator Showtime Cinemas, adding a further two cinemas to their estate in the United Kingdom and Ireland, now totalling 89 cinemas. [14]
Much of that original building was replaced over time though the family continued to use it as a private town residence until the building was leased to the State by the Constable of Kilkenny and owner James Grace in 1566. From that time, it began to be used as a gaol and by 1691 the building was in use as the County Gaol. [4] [5]