Theatre Royal, Hawkins Street, Dublin
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For many years an iconic building in the heart of Dublin it was torn down much to the dismay of many Dubliners and theatre goers! The streetview of this won't be pretty!
I have always felt that I missed out on something important in never having attended the Theater Royal. Alas, it had been demolished a few years after I was born. I remember well my parents and grandparents speaking fondly of many excellent shows they had seen there.
I am convinced by the research, particularly from Niall McAuley that this photo was taken sometime between 1910 to July 1912 and I have updated the date range accordingly.
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Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1910 to July 1912
NLI Ref: Eas 1700
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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I have always felt that I missed out on something important in never having attended the Theater Royal. Alas, it had been demolished a few years after I was born. I remember well my parents and grandparents speaking fondly of many excellent shows they had seen there.
I am convinced by the research, particularly from Niall McAuley that this photo was taken sometime between 1910 to July 1912 and I have updated the date range accordingly.
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: between 1910 to July 1912
NLI Ref: Eas 1700
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 30996
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derangedlemur
OSI: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,716057,734357,11,9
sharon.corbet
This is apparently the second incarnation of the Theatre Royal. (That page has possibly more than anyone needs to know about the history of the three versions of the theatre...)
Owen J Fitzpatrick
Super image post. Hawkins Street looks like a slum today. It's got to be one of the ugliest streets in Dublin by a long stretch.
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"The streetview of this won't be pretty!" - goo.gl/maps/ByNrnHapVXu #fugly
sharon.corbet
Version 3 of the Royal was featured earlier: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6898594718
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] The 2009 streetview looks a little better. If only because the sun is out...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Yes, a little bit of backlighting always helps !
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia See? I told you so! In fairness they are tearing the place up to put in a new tram system to connect two separate tram lines! That horrible glass monstrosity is the bane of most Dublin denizens and visitors!
Swordscookie
I am trying to figure out what is the figure on the bottom left of the building and what is it doing???? It looks like a large litter bin that is moving about but I suspect that it is a "Sandwich Board boy" moving along and advertising a show???
Niall McAuley
There are a load of posters for what's on in the Theatre Royal Hippodrome and Winter Gardens from 1912-22 in the nli archive.
Niall McAuley
I was thinking it's odd that there are no posters visible, and then I saw the blurred sandwich man!
Niall McAuley
The tall building on the left in the distance is Mulligans, est 1782.
Niall McAuley
The clothes say nearer 1910 rather than 1930 to me - I'd say this is before 1920.
Niall McAuley
At https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]'s history page, I see an image published in 1935 of this (by then replaced) theatre with a big glass verandah added at the front. DIA does not know about it, though.
Niall McAuley
Here is another image (from the far side) with the canopy from comeheretome. Ciarán says the photo is estimated to be 1906-07, but that can't be right. Hmm, he dates it by guessing that the construction work in the back left is the construction of the Sheehan monument in 1905.
Niall McAuley
The canopy is not on the 1907 25" map, and the comeheretome pic has more cars than I would expect in 1905, so I think it must be later than this one.
Niall McAuley
Here is one on Pinterest which shows the canopy, and the writing on the facade is different - instead of Theatre Royal one side and Opera House the other, it now says Theatre Royal and Hippodrome on both sides. So when was the Hippodrome added? arthurlloyd just says "The Theatre was later renamed the Theatre Royal Hippodrome during its variety years."
Niall McAuley
Aha! Looking at the nli archive, I see a poster from 1912 for the Theatre Royal, and the first one with Hippodrome in the title is from 1913. As arthurlloyd says, the 1912 show is a musical play in two acts, while the 1913 is pure variety, with 9 different acts. So, latest 1913. If the date range in the archive is to be believed, earliest is 1910.
Niall McAuley
This has gaslighting in the street - I think the work in the comeheretome image is installation of electric streetlights - they are digging trenches either side of the road, it's much more work than the Sheehan monumant would require.
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Via Trove, All The World's a Stage ...
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215730025 (1909)Niall McAuley
Hmm, the DIA does have one entry of note - this version of the theatre opened in 1897, and then: Name: ASHWORTH, CHARLES HERBERT Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HAWKINS STREET, THEATRE ROYAL Date: 1907-1908 Nature: Plans for enlargement & new winter garden Refs: IB 49, 13 Jul 1907, 473; IB 50, 25 Jan, 4 Apr 1908, 53,210,213 It does not say when the plans were executed. The 1912 poster above does not mentions Hippodrome, but it does say Winter Garden Free
Niall McAuley
A peek at the Irish Newspaper Archive suggests that they started advertising with the exact phrase from the Pinterest shot in July 1912: Theatre Royal Hippodrome and Winter gardens. the 1912 poster I linked above is from April 1912, so I think we are very close... 1910 to July 1912.
guliolopez
Thankfully Hawkins House, the monstrosity and local whirlwind generator, is due to be replaced in the coming years. Hopefully with something a little more appropriate to the location. m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/health-hq-voted-as-citys...
oaktree_brian_1976
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley even earlier, the lady on the steps out front looks pre WW1. with the long petty coat and the large hat. Gentleman beside her has bowler hat, 1910ish?
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From The Irish Times online They must have listened to our comments over the last few days.......Hawkins House to be knocked, but what about its ugly neighbours?