Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 21 The Wreck Square Crooks by James P Judge Peg O’ My Heart by J Hartley Manners The Cat Creeper 21st October 1934 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed Hard To Handle in the Hall, a 1933 Jimmy Cagney movie (source: Hall Journal). 4th November 1934 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed Song O’ My Heart in the Hall, a 1930 movie starring Maureen O’Sullivan (source: Hall Journal). 18th November 1934 – Connacht Tribune 10th November 1934, page 12, advertised an upcoming Athenry Coursing Club Dance in the Hall as “the Greatest Event of the Year” with music by the Famous Olympic Dance Band (event confirmed by the Hall Journal). 7th December 1934 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed 2 movies in the Hall (source: Hall Journal): Chandu the Magician, (1932) starring Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi Rackety Rax, (1932) starring Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen and Nell O'Day 16th December 1934 – George Coates’ Travelling Cinema Show screened Okay, America (aka Penalty of Fame), a 1932 movie starring Maureen O’Sullivan as Sheila Barton (source: Hall Journal) 26th December 1934 – Athenry Coursing Club Dance, with Music supplied by the Galway Imperial Band (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 5th January 1935, page 11). 18th January 1935 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed The Desert Song in the Hall, a 1929 movie starring Myrna Loy (source: Hall Journal). 3rd February 1935 – Athenry Ploughing Match Dance (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 2nd February 1935, page 13): “Great Floor, Great Band, Great Catering... in fact everything of the very best!” 8th March 1935 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed The Devil is Driving, a 1932 film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Edmund Lowe (source: Hall Journal). 20th to 21st April 1935 – Messrs Daniels Travelling Picture Company screened Carnival Boat, a 1932 adventure film starring Ginger Rogers, William Boyd, Fred Kohler, and Hobart Bosworth (source: Hall Journal). 31st May 1935 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company screened Captured in the Hall, a 1933 WWI POW movie starring Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr (source: Hall Journal). 30th June 1935 – Athenry Dramatic Company performed The Eloquent Dempsey, 41 a comedy in Three Acts by William Boyle (source: Hall Journal and surviving tickets). It was preceded by a Grand Concert. 8th September 1935 – The Athenry Agricultural Show Grand Dance was held in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also advertisement in Connacht Tribune 24th August 1935, page 12). The Connacht Tribune 14th September 1935, page 10, carried the following report about that Dance: “There was a very large attendance at the Athenry Show Dance which was held in the Athenry Town Hall on Sunday night. The music was supplied by Stephen Garvey’s Band and a most enjoyable night was experienced by all present. Dancing continued until 6 am. The hall was artistically decorated with floral garlands which toned with the beauty and colour of the ladies’ frocks as they danced to the strains of Stephen Garvey’s band. The catering was carried out by a capable and energetic committee...” The Western People 5th January 1935, states as follows in relation to Stephen Garvey on page 7: “Mr Stephen Garvey, with a choir of fifty voices, supported by an orchestra of ten instruments, rendered Christmas Carols in Castlebar...” 41 The Eloquent Dempsey was first staged in the Abbey Theatre in January 1906
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