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Fri 04 Apr 2010City Arts drops its centre and relocates to northside
When the City Arts Centre closed down, Dublin lost a vibrant engine of the arts – but now it’s back, and with a reinvigorated agenda
WHEN THE City Arts Centre closed its doors on the corner of Dublin’s Moss Street in 2002, its loss as a cultural space was much lamented. Here was a venue that by day provided community arts services and at night morphed into a space that hosted theatre, dance shows and even Tony Allen gigs. The late 1980s and early 1990s were something of a heyday. U2 donated music equipment for rehearsal spaces and dramatists like Conor McPherson and Jo Mangan cut their theatrical teeth here.
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