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This is the maroon-coloured cover of the souvenir programme for Tóstal Corcaí – the Festival of Cork, 1956. The design on the front cover is a Celtic-stylised image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand. The image is flanked by two emblems –…

The 1959 Tóstal Corcaí/Festival of Cork souvenir programme is off-white. In the foreground, off centre, is a red Celtic-stylised image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand. The image is flanked by two emblems – one of the harp and one of the…

The 1986 festival programme cover is blue with yellow text, across which a couple is shown in a celebratory mode. The man, dressed in a blue denim shirt and wearing sunglasses, is blowing on a party whistle shaped as film reel negative. The smiling…

The 2012 festival programme cover is white with a line drawing of a couple sitting and looking out on to a view. Their back is to us and they lean into each other and face what might be a seascape. A large sun-like circle dominates the image as it…

The cover of the 2011 festival programme shows a somewhat harried-looking man, walking in a determined fashion along, or off, an arched stone bridge. He is wearing a long beige mac-style coat over an orange jumper and blue jeans. His hair has short…

The 2010 festival programme cover is a stylised graphic design of three uniform looking heads, against a white background strewn with random shapes in various colours and size. The three faces gaze up towards the upper right of the programme -…

The 1988 festival programme cover is predominantly yellow with a graphic image of a laughing face. The green-coloured face is angled left, wearing dark sunglasses. Hair is represented by film negative strips of various colours including orange, green…

The 1965 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of text decorated film negative winding around itself on a black background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Cork Dry Gin’ showing the…

The front of the 2000 festival programme is black, fading to metallic silver at the middle, with four vertical slices of azure blue and white in the centre of the programme – as if the light is shining through four broad gashes. This design, of four…

The front of the 1998 festival programme depicts a painterly representation of a large yellow face, slightly smiling – we can only see the edge of the mouth. Half the face is shown with the focus on the right eye which is painted in sky-blue with…