The Burning: The Movie Night That Devastated Dromcollogher

Podcast: Yore Town · Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

On Sunday night, September 5, 1926, the people of Dromcollogher, County Limerick, gathered for something special: a night at the movies. There was no cinema in the village, so roughly 150 people climbed into a wooden loft above a hardware store where a traveling film show had been set up. The room had a narrow staircase, barred windows, highly flammable nitrate film and candles being used near the projector. Then one of those candles fell. Within moments, the nitrate film ignited. Fire spread through the loft, the main staircase became impassable, and desperate moviegoers turned toward...