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This is a black and white photo of Peter Barry making a presentation to Gerry Jones. Both men are in dress suits accessorised with bow-ties. Jones on the left, with his trademark eye-patch, is shown in profile shaking the hand of Peter Barry. Jones…

This is a black and white photo of the Cork composer Bernard Geary signing autographs for a crowd of excited children who surround him eagerly, hands outstretched. His head is lowered as he attends to the signing, his distinctive dark hair swept to…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Judy Geeson standing with Lord Mayor Thomas Pearse Leahy and festival director Dermot Breen. Blond-haired Geeson, wearing a white lace evening dress and holding a white bag, is smiling directly at…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Mollie Peters reclining on the bonnet of a car. The photo is dated 1968, taken a few years after her infamous role as Nurse Fearing opposite Sean Connery in Thunderball (Terence Young, 1965). In…

This is a black and white photo, taken at the Guinness festival club in 1968, of the English film actor Mollie Peters and the Irish model Grace O’Shaughnessy with a man identified as Eddie Byrne. Byrne is standing next to Peters who is sitting on a…

This is a black and white photo of the film critic Francis Koval with the festival director Dermot Breen and a colleague identified as Dimitri Kazma. Koval, on the left with glass in hand, is smiling directly at the camera while Breen is turned…

This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor Seán Casey walking with Jack Lynch who would have been Taoiseach at the time of this photo in 1966. They walk down a narrow corridor closely flanked either side by young sea cadets in full uniform.…

This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor Noel Purcell crouched down talking to an unidentified child dressed up in a festive military-style costume. A bearded Purcell, with thick greying hair curling at his suit collar, is talking to the…

This is a black and white photo, dated 1966, of the Irish actor Noel Purcell having his beard pulled by a congenial group of colleagues. Purcell, at the centre, is leaning forward, with a mock-startled look on his face, while his greying beard is…

This is a black and white photograph of the actor James Mason arriving at the Savoy Cinema accompanied by a small entourage that includes Jimmy Campbell, festival director Dermot Breen, and others. Wearing evening suits accessorised with a festival…