Venue: Town Hall Theatre
Address: 1 Courthouse Square, Galway
Town: Galway, IE

The Town Hall Theatre (Irish: Amharclann Halla na Cathrach) is a theatre in Galway, Ireland. It was commissioned as a courthouse and later accommodated the meeting place and offices of Galway Corporation. The Town Hall Theatre was designed by architect Alexander Hay in the neoclassical style to be the Galway Town Courthouse and was built directly opposite the Galway Courthouse. Construction of the building began on 21 June 1824 and was completed in 1825. The design involved a symmetrical facade of five bays facing onto Courthouse Square, with the end bays slightly projected forward. The central section of three bays featured a tetrastyle portico formed by Doric order columns supporting an entablature. The end bays were fenestrated by segmental headed windows with voussoirs. The Coat of arms of the United Kingdom was mounted on top of the entablature, but was removed during the Irish War of Independence. The building was later used as a town hall by the Galway Corporation. The corporation was dissolved under the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840, with the town commissioners as its successor. After it was reformed in 1937, Galway Corporation was mostly based at offices in Dominick Street and Fishmarket. On 18 October 1911, Christabel Pankhurst made an address at a suffragettes meeting held by the Irish Women’s Franchise League. Councillor M.J. Crowley of the Galway Urban Council followed this address by stating that the council would express their support for women's voting rights. In 1913 the Ard Fheis was held at the Town Hall. This was the first Oireachtas held outside of Dublin. Notable attendees included, Douglas Hyde, Éamon de Valera, Seán T. O’Kelly and Patrick Pearse. On 29 January 1916 the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and John Redmond advertised a recruiting conference, known as the "Great Recruiting Conference" in the Tuam Herald and Galway Express newspapers, which was held at the Town Hall on 2 February 1916. In December 1920, the Town Hall was comma