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This is a black and white photo of the English film and television composer and conductor Philip Green. In this picture Green is conducting his composition St Patrick’s Mass, which was televised live from the Franciscan Church in Cork for the opening…

This is a black and white photo of festival delegates dated 1970. The photo identifies Gunther Polzelmeir from the Irish Tourist Board in Germany with his wife, festival director Dermot Breen, EF O’Mahony, German actor Kai Fischer, Lord Mayor Peter…

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 colour photo of the Irish poet John Montague with an unidentified companion at a drinks reception. The photo is undated and uncredited but is of value to the archive given the legacy of Montague to poetry and his affiliation with the film…

This is a publicity picture of Mick Hannigan who was the director of the Cork Film Festival from 1986 and its CEO from 2009 to 2013. The photo is undated, but we might suggest that it is from the 1980s when Hannigan, along with the poet Theo Dorgan,…

This is a black and white photo of President Patrick Hillery and his wife Maeve Hillery accompanied by Jim O’Brien. Hillery, wearing a dark suit and holding his trilby hat, is walking alongside O’Brien as they shake hands. His wife, Maeve Hillery, in…

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 President Hillery at a screening with the Lord Mayor of Cork, Seán French and his wife Patricia ‘Patsy’ French. The three of them sit in a row and appear to be enjoying a convivial conversation – Patricia French, in…

This is a black and white photo of President Seán T.O'Kelly in 1956 standing with the theatre and cinema impresario Louis Elliman, and others identified at the back of the photo as Father J.A.V.Bourke and Major Halliman. President Kelly is standing…

This is a sepia-toned black and white photo of President Seán T O’Kelly being escorted into the Savoy Cinema by the Irish impresario Louis Elliman. This was taken in 1956 during the first edition of the Cork International Film Festival and would have…