This Is The Place

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This Is The Place - Audio Walk This walk invites you to visit the sites of some once-loved but now closed venues around Dublin, places that we may pass by every day without noticing them but that meant so much to the people who once frequented them. Part of Rachel Holmes' 4th Year Drama & Theatre Capstone project, looking at the closure of communal venues around Dublin City.

Workman's Cellar

6-8 Essex Street, East Temple Bar, D02 HT44. You should be facing the now-closed Workman's Cellar, directly across from Project Arts Centre. Currently undergoing redevelopment.

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The Clockwork Door

51 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, DO2 NH04. You should be facing an orange door next to an Eatokyo Restaurant.

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The Long Stone Pub

10-11 Townsend Street, Dublin 2. You should be facing an office development with red pillars that's still under construction, near the junction of Townsend Street and Tara Street, opposite a nail salon called Belo Concept.

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Accents

Accents, 23 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2, DO2 NW62. You should be facing a restaurant called Nan Chinese.

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McGonagles

McGonagles, 21A South Anne Street, Dublin 2. You should be facing a shop called New Chapter.

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Olympic Ballroom

Olympic Ballroom, 16 Pleasants Street, Saint Kevin’s D08 XF76. You should be facing a redbrick building Youth Reach building.

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Liberty Kitchen

Liberty Kitchen, 77 Francis Street, Merchant’s Quay Dublin, D08 C520. You should be facing an empty café with a blue front at the junction of Francis Street and The Coombe. The sign for Liberty Kitchen is still above the door.

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Tivoli Theatre

Tivoli Theatre, 135 Francis Street, The Liberties, D08 P5N2. You should be facing the Tivoli Staycity Aparthotel.

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T.V. Club

TV Club, 46-48 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. You should be facing a red-brick office building, with the name Europa House. It is directly opposite the old Harcourt Street Station, now a Pret a Manger.

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Club Chonradh na Gaeilge

Club Chonradh na Gaeilge, 6 Harcourt Street, D02 VH 98. You should be facing the Conradh na Gaeilge building. Club Chonradh was in the basement.

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The Bernard Shaw (Richmond St.)

Bernard Shaw, 11-12 Richmond Street South, Saint Kevin's, Dublin 2. You should be facing an old pub building painted black, across from the restaurant Doolally.

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SFX

SFX Centre, 22 Sherrard Street Upper, Dublin 1. You should be facing a grey-brick apartment block, opposite Carolan’s Off Licence.

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Dandelion Market

Dandelion Market, around 124 Saint Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. The market site was demolished when Saint Stephen’s Green shopping centre was under construction. It’s location is now occupied by retail units.

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