#OTD 1923, a Waterford News and Star report suggested that Wexford Corporation was one of the few local councils to reject Irish Minister for Home Affairs Kevin O'Higgins's plan to introduce a national film censor. Wexford wanted a local committee.
#EarlyIrishCinema1923 #FilmCensorship #NewCinemaHistory

#OTD 1923, Isaac Maher, the father of one of three Dublin boys charged with stealing money from a shop in Summerhill, "blamed the pictures for making the boys do these desperate things." The money was repaid, and the boys were birched. Image: Evening Herald. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #Dublin #NewCinemaHistory

A fight over a sweeping brush between Dublin picture-house assistants Patrick Brady and Thomas Mahon that has spilled out onto Talbot Street was resolved early this week in 1923 with a handshake mandated by a judge. Image: Evening Herald. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #Dublin #NewCinemaHistory

A can of film stock was the only object seized by Irish Free State custom officials on the second day that they began to man the border with Northern Ireland, this week in 1923. Film was one of the goods made liable for tax. Image: Freeman's Journal. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #IrishBorder #NewCinemaHistory

#OTD 1923, Belfast's Gaiety Picture and Variety Theatre in North Street and Queen's Picture House in York Street were offered for sale as going concerns. Image: Belfast News-Letter. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #Belfast #NewCinemaHistory

#OTD 1923, Evening Herald announcements claimed that theatres and cinemas would open as usual that week despite an anti-Treaty IRA edict that they close enforced by bombings. Cinema ads don't show business as usual, albeit it was the holy week before Easter. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #IrishCivilWar #NewCinemaHistory

The anti-Treaty IRA bombed Dublin's Carlton Cinema on the evening of 23 March 1923, the escaping Patrick O'Brien being fatally shot by a National Army solider on the steps of the Masterpiece cinema on nearby Talbot Street. Images: Evening Herald & Archiseek. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #IrishCivilWar #NewCinemaHistory

A mine explosion on Dublin's Henry Place on St Patrick's Day 1923 damaged the Pillar Picture House and injured people in the vicinity. Members of orchestra were thrown from their seats, but the film kept playing. Image: Freeman's Journal & Cinema Treasures. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #IrishCivilWar #StPatricksDay #NewCinemaHistory

Hear travelling showman Harry McFadden recall how his father started out showing silent films before moving into the talkies - the family's travelling cinema show consisting of a portable projector, screening tent and seating - on https://irishcinemahistories.maynoothuniversity.ie/ #TravellingCinema #OralHistory #NewCinemaHistory