On 30 January 1924, Drogheda's Boyne Cinema offered The Prodigal Son (UK: Stoll, 1923), the first part of the epic 17-reel adaptation of Hall Caine's novel, the second part of which was showing at Dublin's Metropole. Images: Drogheda Independent & Bioscope. #EarlyIrishCinema

"Now that radiovision is an accomplished fact," Robert Lynd regretted in the Derry Journal this week 1924, "as you sit in your little Pekin restraurant...you may, for all you know, be appearing on the screen in half the cinemas in London as a farcical interlude" #EarlyIrishCinema