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This is a stylised black and white photo of three unidentified guests taken at the 1996 festival. They stand together laughing in front of a sign for Murphy’s 41st Cork Film Festival. Two of the guests are wearing lanyards – one of which identifies…

This is a black and white photo of the festival founder Dermot Breen with festival delegates at the airport. The delegates are not identified but we recognise the English actor Linda Hayden standing at the foot of the Aer Lingus stairway with Breen.…

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…

This is a black and white photo of the English actors Suzanna Leigh and Virginia Wetherell with two festival guests identified as John Gavin and Jim O’Connell. The photo, dated 1972, was taken at the festival club. Virginia Wetherell, standing on the…

This is a black and white photo of the German-born actor Ferdy Mayne on stage with the Irish actor Michael Twomey. Mayne on the left of this photo, with his distinctive dark eye brows, is speaking into the microphone while Twomey looks on, papers…

This is a black and white photo of the actor David Kelly at the festival club with Vida Breen and Margaret Kerrigan. The formally dressed group are sitting, with a colleague identified as Vaz Anderson, under an umbrella at the busy Harp…

This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor David Kelly with his wife the actor Laurie Morton, Father Burke, and Tom Hickey. The convivial group are shown in a huddle speaking, with Kelly, cigarette in hand, looking over to Morton as she…

This is a black and white photograph marked: Brian Coomber at a festival gala screening. A bespectacled Coomber, wearing a light-coloured suit and turtle neck jumper, is shown seated at a table scattered with tableware, an ashtray, and some notes.…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Linda Hayden posing with a trophy. Hayden, in a light-coloured jumpsuit, sits on the edge of a small round table looking down at the enamelled glass-trimmed trophy which sits on a wooden base with…

This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Seán O'Leary, making a speech at an unidentified location. O'Leary stands at the microphone, notes in hand, and looks out to an unseen audience. Behind him we note the crystal decanter of…