- Grove Social Club
The Grove Social Club was an Irish alternative
discothèque social club started inClontarf ,Dublin ,Ireland . It opened in 1967 on Mount Prospect Avenue inClontarf , in Belgrove Football Club (from which the club got its name). It moved toSt. Paul's College, Raheny in 1975 when the old pavilion was burnt down. The disco was known as theNorthside 's (ofDublin ,Ireland ) original alternative disco, and along with Tamangos inPortmarnock and Saints inHowth was one of the few 'dances/discos' on the northside of Dublin. Cecil Nolan was the DJ at the Grove until it closed in 1997.In 2001 Andy Colbert began running Grove tribute nights at The Isaac Butt Venue in Dublin's city centre. In late 2004, he eventually persuaded Cecil Nolan to make guest appearances, hence these tributes became reunions and relocated to The Sheiling Hotel,
Raheny . These reunions ran four times a year - Easter, Summer, Hallowe'en and Christmas, until the beginning of redovelopment of the Sheiling Hotel into an apartment building in Spring 2008.A documentary about the Grove was commissioned by
Radio Telefis Eireann and televised in 2006.External links
* [http://www.thegrovesocialclub.com Grove Social Club.com]
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