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IE LMOD 528
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1955 Re-opening of the Gaiety Theatre
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- Twentieth Century (Creation)
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Paper, ink. 8.5 x 18 cm
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05/08/2011
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An Invitation from the Director of the Gaiety Theatre to the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Lady Mayoress inviting them to the reopening of the Gaiety Theatre on Friday 25 November 1955.
An invitation to the Lord Mayor of Dublin to attend the performance that re-opened the Gaiety on the 25th of November, 1955. The Gaiety had been forced to close ten months previously when Dublin Corporation condemned the upper circle balcony as unsafe. The auditorium had to be redesigned with safer exits before the Gaiety could re-open. Denis Larkin, son of the famous labour activist Jim Larkin, was Lord Mayor at the time.
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Discoloured from age, an A is wrtten in the top right corner and small rust stain on the back.
