The ‘A B C of Dublin Cinemas’ is surely a magnum opus. It contains five hundred pages of information on every picture house in Dublin since 1900.

George Kearns and Patrick Maguire spent two years on research and it shows. The detail is simply breathtaking. Long forgotten names of over 100 years ago are catalogued.

The names of the first and last movies shown in the many picture houses are given, including my own locals The Deluxe, Princess and Stella in Rathmines. No matter where you live your picture house is mentioned, for example The Premier in Lucan gets 14 pages The Tower in Clondalkin 19 pages and it just goes on and on.

The information is simply staggering and a goldmine of facts and figures for future historians.
We owe a big thank you to George Kearns and Patrick Maguire for this tour de force. If you have any interest in movies I highly recommend that you do yourself a favour and get this book. ‘ABC of Dublin Cinemas’ is available in paperback in Books on the Green, Sandymount.

The picture above was taken at the exhibition which accompanied the book launch.