The laying of the foundation stone of the new Lyric Theatre on Ridgeway Street in Belfast. Irish poet Austin Clarke lays the stone and in the crowd we see a young Seamus Heaney. Also in attendance is the founder of the theatre, Mary O’Malley and Hubert Wilmot of the Arts Theatre. A time capsule is placed into the stone. 

The Lyric Theatre was first established as The Lyric Players in 1951 at the home of its founders Mary O'Malley and her husband Pearse in Derryvolgie Avenue, off the Malone Road. 

An Ulster Television Production.

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