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The 1960 festival programme cover is off-white, with vertical lines in the background dotted with small light stars. In the foreground is a Celtic-stylised image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand. The image is flanked by two emblems – one…

The 1975 Gala Premiere programme cover is off-white with a line drawing on the front of a cinema with outline figures of people queuing up outside to enter. To the right spotlights throw up star-flecked light towards the right edge of the programme.…

The 1985 festival programme cover is off-white with no image. Text, in red font, curves across the front of the slim programme. The back cover is off-white with no text or image. The programme is a slim soft card-bound issue measuring 10cm x 21cm.…

The front of the 1995 festival programme depicts a highly stylised graphic representation of cubic high-rise buildings against a luminescent blue-flecked background. The windows from the buildings shine light green and light emanates from the rear…

The image on the front of the 2006 festival programme is by Patrick Morrison, who was an LA-based Cork-born artist (1945-2013). It is a detail from his painting Metropolis. The picture, which wraps around the spine of the programme, shows a cinema…

The front cover image on the 2007 festival programme is by Patrick Morrison, who was an LA-based Cork-born artist (1945-2013). It is a detail from The Golden Gate Bridge and depicts a couple on, or near, the red-orange steel struts of the bridge.…

The 1967 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of violet coloured text and graphics against a cream-coloured background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Hewitt’s Whisky’ stretching…

The 2002 festival programme cover is a green-themed montage of film stills and festival information. The montage depicts twelve film stills from films being shown that year at the festival; they include Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan, 2002), A Man…

The image on the 2008 festival programme cover is vivid with black silhouettes of three birds amidst a floral-like scene of foliage. The foliage is made up of film reel strips in various colours of green interspaced with brighter pinks and purples.…

The front cover of the 2004 festival programme is text-heavy with an image by the experimental artist Malcolm Le Grice, who exhibited at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork during the 2004 Festival. Le Grice is interested in experimental images in the…