Declan Collinge News Today

Through Streets Broad and Narrow by Declan Collinge; Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square by Andrew Hughes; Spectral Mansions: The Making of a Dublin Tenement by Timothy Murtagh; a history of Dublin Castle; and Dublin City Council’s History on your Doorstep collection

On December 20, 1909 at 45 Mary Street, Dublin, the Volta cinema, initially known as the Cinematograph Volta, opened its doors to the public. While films had been shown before that on an ad hoc basis, it was the first dedicated cinema in the city.