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This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor Vittorio De Sica leaving the Savoy cinema, Cork. Above De Sica we see posters advertising the comedy film Cannon Serenade (Wolfgang Staudte, 1958) in which De Sica starred as the…

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 1958 festival programme cover is off-white with vertical lines in the background with small stars lightly apparent. In the foreground, a Celtic-stylised image of a saint, holding a staff in his right hand, is flanked by two emblems – one of the…

The 1959 festival programme cover is black with a white insert onto which an image and the text is printed. The image is one of the world aligned with what seems like the frame of a screen through which we can view the globe. The continents of…

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 1969 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of orange, purple, green, and white elongated shapes stretching from the top to the bottom of the page. Text is presented in black on the white strip along the…

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 1984 festival programme is a slim off-white programme with no image on its cover. Text in bold blue art deco font crosses the programme diagonally. The back cover is off-white with no text or image. The 1984 programme is a soft card-bound…

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 1992 festival programme cover depicts a photographic montage of a gritty realist scene comprising a large silver film reel in the upper right corner against a concrete distressed-coloured grey/blue-black background tinted with reddish tones. The…