Sep 23, 2026 · 17 min · 7 segments
# This week on the Podcast this week Dick and Tom are talking about the old Galway Cinemas # You can find the articles referenced in this podcast on www.advertiser.ie/galway.If you have a message for…
Tom KennyHostDickHostAnyway, the first...
I spent my youth going to the Fours there on Saturdays.
You were a young man.
Yeah, that's true.
They didn't have comic pictures on Saturdays.
Well, the first ever...
They sweep up the bullets after the picture.
We didn't walk home slapping our backsides as we galloped home, you know, cheering.
This was just a demonstration of a machine that could show living pictures or moving pictures or movies as we would call them now today.
or films yeah yeah well exactly films technology advanced anyway very quickly and uh in 1909 the original animated pictures company brought their cinematography uh machines through the record court uh uh very animated
pictures uh The Racquet Court was a very popular cinema, my father did when he was a young lad.
Yeah, my father got the job one time of the four horses of the apocalypse.
Yeah.
And he being an electrician, he had to warm up the explosives.
They used to use explosives when the bombs were going off on the screen.
They used to use real maroons.
Anyway, the first...
I spent my youth going to the Fours there on Saturdays.
You were a young man.
Yeah, that's true.
They didn't have comic pictures on Saturdays.
Well, the first ever...
They sweep up the bullets after the picture.
We didn't walk home slapping our backsides as we galloped home, you know, cheering.
This was just a demonstration of a machine that could show living pictures or moving pictures or movies as we would call them now today.
or films yeah yeah well exactly films technology advanced anyway very quickly and uh in 1909 the original animated pictures company brought their cinematography uh machines through the record court uh uh very animated
pictures uh The Racquet Court was a very popular cinema, my father did when he was a young lad.
Yeah, my father got the job one time of the four horses of the apocalypse.
Yeah.
And he being an electrician, he had to warm up the explosives.
They used to use explosives when the bombs were going off on the screen.
They used to use real maroons.
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