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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 17:32:00

The contractors worked twenty-four-hour shifts and built it in twenty-five weeks. The Gaiety Theatre on South King Street, off Grafton Street beside St Stephen's Green, opened on 27 November 1871 with the Lord Lieutenant as guest of honour and a double bill of She Stoops to Conquer and the burlesque La Belle Sauvage. The theatre was the project of brothers John and Michael Gunn, whose family ran a music business on Grafton Street; they hired C.J. Phipps, the leading theatre architect of the day...