A Throwback Thursday photo where locals enjoyed a night out at ‘Delahunty's Cinema’, otherwise known as the Thurles New Cinema, the night it closed for good.
The New Cinema as it was known opened on 16 March 1924.
The cinema closed in August 1977.
Top photo caption: Jimmy Kenehan, Nellie Bourke, Mary Shanahan at Delahunty’s Cinema on the night it closed for the last time, 27 August 1977.
1. New Cinema, Slievenamon Road, Thurles.
O’Shea family and Tipperary Studies