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The 1988 festival poster is a graphic image of a large turquoise blue laughing face against a bright yellow background flecked with orange. The face is angled left, bright blue with yellow lips, and wearing dark sunglasses. Hair is represented by…

The 1989 festival poster is a graphic image of a laughing turquoise blue-faced man against a bright pink background. He has bright yellow hair and lips and is wearing a green hat with wings and a green short-sleeved shirt decorated with small black…

This is an undated black and white photo of a young Dermot Breen, customary cigarette in hand, posing in front of a large poster advertising the various aspects of the Tóstal festival. Tóstal was a pageant held around Ireland to celebrate Ireland’s…

The 2010 festival programme cover is a stylised graphic design of three uniform looking heads, against a white background strewn with random shapes in various colours and size. The three faces gaze up towards the upper right of the programme -…

The cover of the 2011 festival programme shows a somewhat harried-looking man, walking in a determined fashion along, or off, an arched stone bridge. He is wearing a long beige mac-style coat over an orange jumper and blue jeans. His hair has short…

The 2012 festival programme cover is white with a line drawing of a couple sitting and looking out on to a view. Their back is to us and they lean into each other and face what might be a seascape. A large sun-like circle dominates the image as it…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director, Dermot Breen, with the vice-chairman of the festival committee, Richard (Dick) Beamish, and Tom Nicholas (centre) from the London Friends of Cork. They are attending a reception at the Martini…

This is a black and white photo of Roy Gunson, Margaret Savage, and the vice-chairman of the festival committee, Richard (Dick) Beamish, taken at a reception held at the Martini Terrace, New Zealand House, in London. On the far left the bespectacled…

This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor Noel Purcell crouched down talking to an unidentified child dressed up in a festive military-style costume. A bearded Purcell, with thick greying hair curling at his suit collar, is talking to the…

This is a black and white photo of Mary Tilson who was Miss Movie Girl in 1975. Tilson, wearing a striped shirt, is standing at the door of a stagecoach carriage and turned towards the camera smiling.