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Mon 09 Sep 2007Academy to reopen as officesThe former Academy Cinema on Pearse Street, Dublin, previously the Antient Concert Rooms, which has been derelict for more than 30 years, is to be reopened next month.The building, which has associations with WB Yeats, James Joyce and John McCormack, among others, was almost destroyed by fire in 1975, but has now been restored to its original 1820s condition.