Town Hall Theatre (Galway)

Town Hall Theatre

Amharclann Halla na Cathrach
Town Hall Theatre Location within Ireland
Location	1 Courthouse Square, Galway, Republic of Ireland
Coordinates	53°16′34″N 9°03′14″W / 53.276177°N 9.053985°W / 53.276177; -9.053985Coordinates: 53°16′34″N 9°03′14″W / 53.276177°N 9.053985°W / 53.276177; -9.053985
Public transit	Galway railway station
Capacity	393 (Main Auditorium) 60 (Studio Space)
Opened	October 1995
Website
tht.ie

The Town Hall Theatre (Irish: Amharclann Halla na Cathrach^[1]) is a theatre in Galway, Ireland.

History[]

The building which houses the Town Hall Theatre was erected in the 1820s and served first as a courthouse and later as a town hall. In the 1950s, the building was converted into a cinema and was used for film screenings until it fell into disrepair in the 1990s. Galway Corporation (now Galway City Council), with the assistance of a grant from the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, undertook a major refurbishment of the building between 1993–95 and it reopened as a state of the art, 393-seat Municipal Theatre in October 1995.^{[citation needed]}

It is used as a venue during the annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature. Charlie Byrne's hosts the festival's pop-up bookshop there each year.^[2]

External links[]

• Official site

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