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This is a black and white photo of three festival colleagues identified at the rear of the photo as Ted and Ursula O’Brien from College Road, Cork. They are standing with an unidentified companion. Ted O’Brien was on the organising committee of the…

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 of a festival discussion panel chaired by the Irish television presenter Bunny Carr. The three panellists, sitting at a table in front of long-armed microphones, include the English writer James Mitchell, the Irish…

This is a black and white photo of a discussion panel that includes the Irish television presenter Bunny Carr, the screen writer Wolf Mankowitz, Joan Long and two others unidentified. The panel is part of a 1970 symposium for the Cork Film Festival.…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Sylvia Syms at a drinks reception at the Piccadilly Hotel in London, organised by the London Friends of the festival. Syms, in a bright knee-length dress and cigarette in hand, is turned towards…

This is a black and white photo of the Italian actors Luisa Della Noce and Sylva Koscina with festival director Dermot Breen. Della Noce is in animated conversation with Dermot Breen while Koscina looks on. Breen has his left arm linked through the…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen flanked by the Italian actors Sylva Koscina and Luisa Della Noce. All three, smiling at the camera, are dressed in evening wear and Breen has his arms around the waist of the two…

This is a black and white photo of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina, seated and holding up a stiletto high-heeled black shoe. The photo, taken in 1956, notes at the back that this is the first pointed high-heeled shoe in Cork. …

This is a black and white photo, dated 1956, of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina surrounded by local fans as far as the eye can see. She is wearing a Glen-check jacket with a festival pin on the left lapel. She appears to be signing her…

A black and white photo of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina fixing her hair while looking into a wall-sized mirror. She is wearing a full skirted three-quarter length off-the-shoulder dress (described as the 'famous dress' on another…