The original 1958 festival programme is a soft card-bound issue measuring 16.5cm x 24.5cm. The bind is stapled and it has 31 numbered pages. There is some wear & tear on the cover – particularly around the staples on the spine and the top left…
This is a black and white photo of a Canadian delegation to the Cork festival dated 1970. The photo was formerly framed and marked with details of the small group on its front and includes, from left to right, the Canadian Ambassador, James Joachim…
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 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 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…