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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 black and white image shows three unidentified festival guests standing together smiling for the camera. All are in formal wear and the guest at the centre holds a St Finbarr statuette. We recognise the trellis in the background from other…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen in Fitzgerald’s Park giving an interview to a BBC television crew in the late 1960s. The interview is taking place on one of the tree-lined avenues that dot the park amidst its…

This is a black and white photo of the Irish film director and documentary maker Louis Marcus sitting with an unidentified companion. Marcus on the left, with his distinctive glasses and beard, is turned slightly towards his companion, engaged in…

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…

This is a black and white photo of an unidentified delegate standing at a microphone, his head lowered reading from a script. He is dark-haired with wire-framed glasses and wearing a long-line black belted jacket (which might help us date this image…