The band played two shows at what was then the Adelphi Cinema, Middle Abbey Street, on November 7th, 1963. If The Irish Times of the day failed to recognise the musical significance of the band, it succeeded in providing extensive coverage of Ireland’s only exposure to Beatlemania. “Many arrested as city crowds riot” ran the front page headline on November 8th, accompanied by a photograph of a crowd of young people breaking through a police cordon on O’Connell Street. Fans in the auditorium of the Adelphi Cinema for the Beatles in Dublin, November, 1963. “One group of youths pushed a parked car into half a dozen policemen who were trying to get them out of the street,” reported The Irish Times.

Source: The Irish Times October 29, 2018 14:59 UTC