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The important role which An Táin Arts Centre plays in the cultural and social life of Dundalk and surrounding areas is highlighted in a series of short films This is Our Arts Centre which was shot last December.
The films focus on the local theatre, musical, dance and educational groups that have been unable to use the Arts Centre the way they once did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The first film aired on An Táin s Facebook page last Wednesday (10th) and featured Pat McKenna who spoke of how he first got involved in amateur drama in a production of Paul Vincent Carroll s The Devil Came From Dublin in 1956. His involvement with amateur drama continued when he moved to Dublin and Canada and he later joined The Castle Players on his return to Ireland. He recounted his involvement with Dundalk Youth Theatre. He described how An Táin Arts Centre represented a big improvement on the facilities that were in old Town Hall and said he missed going into the Arts Centre because of lo
Drogheda has always enjoyed a great tradition when it comes to movies and I have discovered a few more links.
Fans of old films will recognise the picture (but perhaps not the name) but it s Sarah Allgood, a star of the black and white Hollywood films from the 1930s and 40s.
She featured in such classics as How Green Was My Valley , Cheaper by the Dozen and The Spiral Staircase .
Sarah passed away in 1950 in Hollywood and her death sparked a great local angle.
The Allgood family were from Dublin but had an old association with Drogheda by reason of the fact that in 1900, Sarah Allgood s sister-Marie O Neill-resided in the town with friends of hers -the Bernard McArevy family, high class furniture manufacturers, who then carried on their business at what would become the site of the Abbey Cinema on West Street.