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This is a black and white photo of the St Finbarr statuette that was designed by the Cork-born sculptor Seamus Murphy. The award itself is 31cm high including the base. The inscription across the base reads Cork International Film Festival Trophy by…

This is a cast bronze crescent-shaped award in gold and green hues. The base, measuring 17.5cm x 8cm, is engraved: Winner Best Black & White Short Film, Murphy's 43rd Cork Film Festival 1998. The back of the base is signed with the initial 'B' -…

This black and white photo shows the festival director Dermot Breen in conversation with two colleagues, one of whom is identified as Mr J Chapman. The small convivial group are huddled together, with food and drink in hand, smiling and laughing as…

This is a black and white photo of a young Dermot Breen in front of a poster advertising the German film Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) (Géza von Radványi, 1958) starring Otto Eduard Hasse and Éva Bartok (1927-1998). The 1958…

This is a black and white photo of a young Jack Lynch at an award presentation with an unidentified colleague. A St Finbarr statuette, inside a wooden box, is being exchanged and, on the table behind Lynch, we can make out a stack of boxed festival…

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, 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 photo of a party being held at the Garda Barracks on MacCurtain Street in Cork. Marked 1962 the photo identifies four of the revellers to be the actor Ronnie Shiner, the local businessman Donal Crosbie, Norma Crosbie and…

This is a black and white photo, marked 1958, of Dermot Breen, Donal Crosbie, John Grierson and the Iranian-German film producer Vasgen Badal sitting together at a table in conversation. The festival director Dermot Breen, with his back to us, is…

This is a black and white photo of the pioneering film critic Bjørn Rasmussen. In this photo, marked 1958, Rasmussen is seated at a desk speaking into a microphone. He rests his hands, folded over each other, on the crook of a wooden walking stick…