This is a black and white photo of a young Jack Lynch at an award presentation with an unidentified colleague. A St Finbarr statuette, inside a wooden box, is being exchanged and, on the table behind Lynch, we can make out a stack of boxed festival…
This is a black and white photo of a young Dermot Breen in front of a poster advertising the German film Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) (Géza von Radványi, 1958) starring Otto Eduard Hasse and Éva Bartok (1927-1998). The 1958…
This black and white photo shows the festival director Dermot Breen in conversation with two colleagues, one of whom is identified as Mr J Chapman. The small convivial group are huddled together, with food and drink in hand, smiling and laughing as…
This is a black and white photo of the Russian director Stanislav Rostotsky with festival director Dermot Breen and two unidentified female colleagues. The small convivial group, all dressed in evening wear, stand together smoking and laughing. The…
This is a black and white photo, dated 1969, of festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida, accompanied by two colleagues identified as Jimmy Campbell and Frank O'Reilly. The small group is shown in evening wear ascending the stone steps of the…
This is a black and white photo of a dinner, or lunch, party attended by Barbara Vance who is the only guest identified at the back of the photo. The thirteen guests, all of whom are smiling for the camera, sit on either side of a long table with the…
This is a black and white photo of a workshop that appears to be demonstrating the intricacies of film editing to a small group of participants. The back of the photograph identifies two of the participants as Donal Wilde, sitting at the table, and…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Judy Geeson standing with Lord Mayor Thomas Pearse Leahy and festival director Dermot Breen. Blond-haired Geeson, wearing a white lace evening dress and holding a white bag, is smiling directly at…
This is a black and white photo of the Chinese actor, director, and author Tsai Chin with a group of delegates identified at the back of the photo as Alan Buttonshaw, Vida Breen, Robin O'Sullivan, Frank O'Reilly, and Kevin Breen. The formally dressed…
This is an undated black and white publicity headshot of festival director Dermot Breen (1924-1978). Breen was the driving force behind the inception of the festival in 1956 as part of An Tóstal; he was at its helm until his death in 1978 after which…