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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…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a microphone with the Irish stage, television, and screen actor Noel Purcell. Purcell, with his trademark beard, and hands clasped before him, is looking at…

This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor Vittorio De Sica leaving the Savoy cinema, Cork. Above De Sica we see posters advertising the comedy film Cannon Serenade (Wolfgang Staudte, 1958) in which De Sica starred as the…

This is a black and white photo of the film festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a large montage-style poster advertising Féile Scannán ćorcaí (Cork Film Festival). Breen, standing to the right, is photographed looking up at the…

This is a black and white photo of the German actors Eva-Ingeborg Scholz and Eva Kotthaus with Dermot Breen on the left and a guest identified as Karl Heinz Herren on the right. The small group are standing together engaged in animated conversation.…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen escorting an unidentified actor at the steps of the Savoy Cinema in Cork. Both are dressed in formal evening wear, Breen in a dark suit and the lady in a three-quarter length dress…

This is a black and white photo of the German film actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz (1928-) standing with the festival director Dermot Breen, the Iranian-German film producer Vasgen Badal and Dinny Gould. All four are dressed in formal wear and smiling.…

This is a black and white photo of the pioneering film critic Bjørn Rasmussen. In this photo, marked 1958, Rasmussen is seated at a desk speaking into a microphone. He rests his hands, folded over each other, on the crook of a wooden walking stick…

This is a black and white photo, marked 1958, of Dermot Breen, Donal Crosbie, John Grierson and the Iranian-German film producer Vasgen Badal sitting together at a table in conversation. The festival director Dermot Breen, with his back to us, is…

This is a black and white photo of a party being held at the Garda Barracks on MacCurtain Street in Cork. Marked 1962 the photo identifies four of the revellers to be the actor Ronnie Shiner, the local businessman Donal Crosbie, Norma Crosbie and…