This is a black and white photo of festival committee members Robin O’Sullivan and Dan Donovan with the English actor George Baker and unidentified colleagues. O’Sullivan, on the left of the photo stands in between a festival attendee identified as…
This is a black and white photo of the Dublin-born film director and producer Norman Cohen shaking hands with the festival director Dermot Breen. A bearded Cohen, wearing a light-coloured utility jacket, is smiling as he chats with Breen. While there…
This is a black and white photo of President Patrick Hillery and his wife Maeve Hillery accompanied by Jim O’Brien. Hillery, wearing a dark suit and holding his trilby hat, is walking alongside O’Brien as they shake hands. His wife, Maeve Hillery, in…
This is a black and white photo of the Army Band taken at a festival gala event in the 1970s. They are shown from the top in the flower-decorated orchestra pit of the City Hall. The unidentified conductor stands at the podium - head lowered as he…
This is a black and white photo of a press briefing with Sheamus Smith, Bill O’Herlihy and Disney representative whom we have provisionally identified as Roy Disney. Smith and O’Herlihy are turned towards Disney listening to him as he speaks. Behind…
This is a black and white photo of festival director Mick Hannigan with his colleagues. The photo is undated but we might suggest that it was taken during the late 1980s/1990s when Hannigan ran the festival, after taking it over from Robin O’Sullivan…
This is a black and white photo of the sculptor Séamus Murphy and his daughter, Bebhinn Marten, in conversation with the Cork politician Peter Barry. The convivial group is dressed formally, and Marten, wearing a flower-decorated light-coloured…
This is a black and white photo of the former festival director, Mick Hannigan, reading from a makeshift podium in front of the Long Valley Bar on Winthrop Street in Cork. To the right, leaning against the wall of the arched lobby, we note the…
This is a black and white photo of the celebrated Cork-born poet Theo Dorgan, on the left in a leather jacket, with an unidentified companion. They are both looking down at the programme for the 31st Cork International Film Festival which took place…
This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor David Kelly with festival director Dermot Breen, Jim O’Brien, and an unidentified companion. The small group are arriving into the marble lobby of the Imperial Hotel on the South Mall in Cork. Kelly,…