The 1965 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of text decorated film negative winding around itself on a black background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Cork Dry Gin’ showing the…
The 1961 festival programme cover is cream-coloured with a Celtic-stylised faded image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand - probably St Finbarr of Cork. The image is flanked by two emblems – one of the harp and one of the coat of arms of…
The 1960 festival programme cover is off-white, with vertical lines in the background dotted with small light stars. In the foreground is a Celtic-stylised image of a saint holding a staff in his right hand. The image is flanked by two emblems – one…
The 1959 festival programme cover is black with a white insert onto which an image and the text is printed. The image is one of the world aligned with what seems like the frame of a screen through which we can view the globe. The continents of…
The 1958 festival programme cover is off-white with vertical lines in the background with small stars lightly apparent. In the foreground, a Celtic-stylised image of a saint, holding a staff in his right hand, is flanked by two emblems – one of the…
The 2019 festival poster has an orange and purple colour scheme with a purple stripe on its left. To the right of the purple stripe, there is an image of a young man caught mid-flight in dance on an orange background; he is wearing an embellished…
The 2018 festival poster has a green and blue colour scheme with an emerald-green stripe on its left. To the right of the green stripe there is a blue-themed lightly pixelated image of a partially visible face with just the right eye showing. The eye…
The 2010 festival poster is a stylised graphic design of three large male heads, against a white background strewn with random shapes in various colours and size. The three faces are gazing up towards the upper right of the poster. It appears that a…
The 2009 festival poster is a painterly image, by the Swiss artist Georges Schwizgebel, of two creatures looking at each other in a glade or garden setting. The doe and the dog are facing off tentatively. The shadow of a tree falls over them. The…
The 1998 festival poster is a painterly representation of a large yellow face, slightly smiling - we can only see the edge of the mouth - looking out at the viewer from the right edge of the poster. Half the face is shown with the focus on the right…