The Pavilion

Specialties

Live Music Venue + Late Night Bar + Café

History

Established in 1921.

The Pavilion cinema was one of the oldest cinemas in Cork. It opened for business on the 10^th of March 1921. The first film screened here was D. W. Griffith’s The Greatest Question. With 900 seats, it quickly established itself as one of the most popular cinemas in the city. It was the first cinema in Cork to be equipped with technology for the new ‘talking’ films. Its first ‘talkie’ was shown here on the 5^th of August 1929. A fire caused major damage to the cinema in February 1930, but it reopened in June of the same year. The Pavilion restaurant was also popular with locals.

In the last two years Pana Productions refurbished the building from top to toe creating a new late night bar downstairs and turning the former nightclub into a multipurpose music venue. Recent acts to have played here include Scullion, Gary Numan, Buzzcocks, Mick Flannery, Sly & Robbie, Kanye West, Damien Dempsey, The xx, Candi Staton and Sharon Shannon to name but a few!