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This is a black and white undated image of a festival trophy. The silver-plated single-column trophy is engraved with the Cork coat of arms on the front. The award is topped with a film reel with film ribbon looped around its core and the film ribbon…

This is a black and white photo of the Japanese actor and film director Sachiko Hidari with a colleague, both of whom are holding awards. Standing on the left Hidari is holding a St Finbarr statue, the design of which is attributed to the Cork-born…

This is a black and white photo of a festival award marked Cork Film Festival 1979 European Community Award. The award is placed on a small circular table in a dining room where we can just make out some people milling around in the background. One…

This is a black and white photo of a man identified as Ray Atkinson making a presentation to an unidentified recipient. The photograph is undated but from the clothes we might guess the picture was taken in the 1960s or 1970s. Atkinson in a dark suit…

This is a black and white photo of the closing night of the festival in 1967 and shows guests and dignitaries seated across the expanse of the City Hall stage. A small white table at the front of the stage displays four St Finbarr statuettes,…

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 the English actor Dawn Addams and the Fianna Fáil politician Jack Lynch presenting her with an award. Addams, in a light-coloured evening gown, decorated at the waist with a brooch and a trailing ribbon, is shown 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…

This is a black and white photo of the Fianna Fáil politician Jack Lynch (1917-1999) on the right presenting a St Finbarr statuette to Vasgen Badal in his capacity as leader of the German delegation. The Press Comments section of the 1959 Festival of…