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A RADIO documentary by Ciaran Ryan (Out On A Limb record company) will be broadcast by Newstalk at 7am on Saturday July 23 and repeated at 10pm on Sunday 24. It will be available as a podcast on newstalk.com next week.
The programme follows the history of the city’s legendary Theatre Royal venue. Now lying idle since the late ’90s, the venue hosted Oscar Wilde, Patrick Pearse, Catherine Hayes and John McCormack and in the ’90s The Cranberries, House of Pain and Billy Connolly performed there. Black Grape played their debut show there and the ‘Eurovision Episode’ of Father Ted was filmed there. Even when the venue was badly damaged by fire and left without a roof, metal band Judgement played the venue in the open air.
House, techno and the region’s biggest ’70s night Boogie Wonderland also featured in the eclectic booking policies of the Cecil Street venue.
The documentary features contributions from Noel Hogan (The Cranberries), Joe Clarke (promoter), Dr Matthew Potter (historian) and Stuart Clark (Hot Press Magazine).
