Town Hall Theatre (Galway)


The Town Hall Theatre 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, 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.
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.