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This is an undated black and white photo of an award presentation to unidentified participants of the festival. The image is interesting because of the nature of the award itself which is an elaborate three-tiered multi-column confection unlike the…

This is a black and white photo of Roy Gunson, Margaret Savage, and the vice-chairman of the festival committee, Richard (Dick) Beamish, taken at a reception held at the Martini Terrace, New Zealand House, in London. On the far left the bespectacled…

This is a black and white photo of Joseph Tomelty, the Irish character actor, novelist and playwright, reading from the pulpit of St. Francis' Church on Liberty Street in Cork. Joseph Tomelty (1911-1995) was a cultural tour de force from the North of…

This is a black and white photo, dated 1969, of festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida, accompanied by two colleagues identified as Jimmy Campbell and Frank O'Reilly. The small group is shown in evening wear ascending the stone steps of the…

This is a black and white group photo, dated 1967, of festival director Dermot Breen standing with representatives from the Irish Tourist Board (An Bord Fáilte) and the long-running American men's magazine Esquire. The four guests are shown standing…

This is a black and white photograph dated 1965 of Frank Poole standing with an unidentified lady and the film festival director Dermot Breen. A bespectacled Poole, standing on the far left, is smiling broadly at the camera next to a dashing…

This is a black and white photo of the President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, inspecting the troops on MacCurtain Street, Cork. He is wearing a dark suit and his trademark trilby hat walking along the street, accompanied by a uniformed officer in a…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Sir Alec Guinness standing with the festival director Dermot Breen. They are outdoors, possibly on a boat, standing side-by-side wearing heavy coats. Both are looking directly at the camera;…

This is a black and white photo of the film producter Vasgen Badal and Norma Crosbie greeting each other. Both are in formal wear and Badal looks on, vaguely distracted, while Norma Crosbie, dressed in a white lace dress, leans in to kiss him. The…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen escorting an unidentified actor at the steps of the Savoy Cinema in Cork. Both are dressed in formal evening wear, Breen in a dark suit and the lady in a three-quarter length dress…