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These black and white photos are of festival director Robin O’Sullivan and unidentified colleagues. They show the convivial Robin O’Sullivan, in photos marked 1980s, in conversation with festival attendees. O’Sullivan stepped in to run the film…

This is a colour photograph of the Cork Opera House in a night time scene with an inflatable gorilla on its roof. The photo shows the Opera House lit up in neon lights advertising the film festival. The long exposure of the shot lights up the light…

This is a black and white photo of festival director Mick Hannigan with his colleagues. The photo is undated but we might suggest that it was taken during the late 1980s/1990s when Hannigan ran the festival, after taking it over from Robin O’Sullivan…

This is a black and white photo of the former festival director, Mick Hannigan, reading from a makeshift podium in front of the Long Valley Bar on Winthrop Street in Cork. To the right, leaning against the wall of the arched lobby, we note the…

This is a black and white photo of the celebrated Cork-born poet Theo Dorgan, on the left in a leather jacket, with an unidentified companion. They are both looking down at the programme for the 31st Cork International Film Festival which took place…

These black and white photos include Mick Hannigan who was the director of the Cork festival from 1986 and its CEO from 2009 to 2013. The photos are undated, but we might suggest they are from the late 1980s/early 1990s.We include the second photo of…

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 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 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…