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This is a black and white photo of the English actor, Dawn Addams, and a companion, arriving at the Savoy Cinema on Patrick Street, Cork in 1957. They are surrounded by a large crowd that extends back as far as the limestone façade of the Cash &…

This is a black and white 1956 photo of the Yugoslav-born Italian actor Sylva Koscina and the screenwriter and producer, Georges de La Grandière. Both are formally dressed and de La Grandière is holding a St Finbarr award in his left hand and has his…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Anna Neagle dressed in an evening gown with fur stole. She is accompanied by the festival director Dermot Breen and Captain Tom McKenna dressed in formal attire. A small crowd around them clap as…

This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor Vittorio De Sica stepping out of a car at Kent train station in Cork. The photo notes that he is accompanied by Ken Rives and the festival director Dermot Breen. A third man,…

This is a black and white photo of the Italian film director and actor, Vittorio De Sica, arriving at the Savoy cinema, escorted by an entourage of seven men dressed in evening suits. The group include the festival director Dermot Breen at the far…

This is a black and white photo of the Savoy Cinema on Patrick Street in Cork, advertising the 1956 festival. Flags adorn the building in a night-time scene and crowds are gathered outside. Posters include signs for World Premiere - tonight at 8pm;…

This is a signed publicity photo of the English comedy actor Ronnie Shiner (1903-1966). Shiner, dressed as a Royal Navy officer, is posing on the deck of a ship with four unidentified swimsuit-clad women. The photo is unmarked but it might be from…

The 1965 festival programme is slim, with an abstract design on its cover in the form of text decorated film negative winding around itself on a black background. The back cover is plain white with an advertisement for ‘Cork Dry Gin’ showing the…

The front of the 2000 festival programme is black, fading to metallic silver at the middle, with four vertical slices of azure blue and white in the centre of the programme – as if the light is shining through four broad gashes. This design, of four…

The front of the 1998 festival programme depicts a painterly representation of a large yellow face, slightly smiling – we can only see the edge of the mouth. Half the face is shown with the focus on the right eye which is painted in sky-blue with…