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…
The original 1968 programme is a slim soft card-bound programme measuring 26.5cm x 11cm. The bind is stapled and it has 60 numbered pages. The cover design, by Harry Wallace, is repeated across many editions of the festival during the late 1960s and…
The original 1969 programme is a slim soft card-bound programme measuring 11cm x 26.5cm. The bind is stapled and it has 60 numbered pages. The cover design, by Harry Wallace, is repeated across many editions of the festival during the late 1960s and…
The 1978 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of elongated shapes, in various shades of brown and yellow, stretching from the top to the bottom of the page. Text is presented in dark brown on the white strip…
The front of the 2014 festival programme is of a neon green/blue clock with yellow highlights. The art-deco styled clock takes up much of the page – its transparent face is styled with various designs, and the white hands on the clock-face display…
The 2015 festival programme cover is duck-egg blue with white and purple coloured text across its front. There is a small graphical image of a ship on the lower right. The ship, white in silhouette, is represented by a hull and six sails with a flag…
The 2016 festival programme cover is salmon-pink with the headline in white coloured text across its front. There is a monochrome image of a person standing with their back to us at the centre of the programme. Their arms are outstretched and their…
The 2017 festival programme cover is mustard-yellow with the headline in white coloured text across its front. There is a maroon-coloured monochrome image of a face gazing out from the centre of the programme which is peering through a single camera…
This is a black and white photo of the German journalist and film critic Francis Koval in conversation with the Cork businessman and vice-chairman of the festival committee, Richard (aka Dick) Beamish. Koval, standing on the right with a martini…
This is a black and white photo of the journalist Francis Koval standing with colleagues, one of whom is identified as the journalist Mary Young. Koval, in the middle with a bow-tie and glass in hand, appears to be in mid-conversation, as his…