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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 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 Irish actor Eamon Morrissey in conversation with a festival attendee. The flash of the camera lights up his animated face as he turns towards his dark-haired companion, identified at the back of the photo as…

These black and white images of a press conference are taken upstairs at the Savoy Cinema, Cork, during the 1970s. The photographs, by the photographer Donal Sheehan, include the festival director Dermot Breen holding forth alongside the journalist…

This is a black and white photo taken at the Imperial Hotel of a festival attendee holding a large bouquet of flowers accompanied by fellow festival delegates. Some of the group are identified at the back of the photo and include Mary O’Keeffe, Jim…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a large display board with an unidentified colleague. The two men chat as Breen rests his left hand on the display for the film The Adventures of Barry…

This is a black and white photo of the German actor Hannelore Elsner, wearing a heart-patterned dress, looking up at the camera smiling. Elsner’s long-standing career ended only with her death in 2019, age 77. In the early 1970s Elsner appeared in…

This is a black and white photo of the actor Robert Shaw and Vida Breen at the entrance of the Capitol Cinema in Cork. Robert Shaw, in a dress suit, looks up towards the camera smiling, his hand linked through Vida Breen’s arm. She is dressed in a…

This is a black and white group photo of the festival director Dermot Breen with local dignitaries and film festival attendees. The photo, dated 1976, includes Lord Mayor Seán French, his wife Patricia French, the actor David Hemmings, his partner…

This is a black and white group photo of the Lord Mayor Seán French and his wife, Patricia French, sitting with delegates and guests from the Department of Italian at University College Cork (UCC). From the carpet and room décor, we guess that they…