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This is a black and white photo of the English actor Tony Wright and Vida Breen. Wright was a Rank Organisation contract player for some years. He is shown in conversation with Vida Breen, the wife of the festival director Dermot Breen, at a dinner…

This is a black and white group photo of the German film actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz with the Lord Mayor Seán McCarthy (1889-1974) and others identified at the back of the photo as Vida Breen, the Lord Mayor Seán McCarthy, Norma Crosbie, the Lord…

This is a black and white photo of Jack Lynch at a dinner function seated with Vida Breen and others, one of whom is identified as Hank Nimbergen. Behind them their fellow diners, seated at tables decorated with candelabra, are busy eating at laden…

This is a colour photograph of the Children’s Choir posing at the altar of St Francis's Church on Liberty Street in Cork. The girls, in matching red frocks accessorised with a white headband, line up with the boys, in their black trousers and white…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams with the festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida. The three are in mid-conversation with both Vida and Dermot looking at Dawn Addams who is caught in the moment looking up to…

This is a black and white photo of Vida (née Daly) Breen with Prince Vittorio Massimo of Rome who was then the husband of the English actor Dawn Addams. Vida Breen was the wife of the film festival director, Dermot Breen, whom she married in 1952. In…

This is a black and white photo of festival director Dermot Breen and his wife Vida Breen with their colleague Tom Nicholas on the grounds of Ashbourne House in Glounthaune, Cork. They stand together and chat in the convivial setting of the Ashbourne…

This is a black and white photo of Dermot and Vida Breen with Dick Murphy and the drinks rep from Irish Distillers. The formally dressed group stand in a small huddle as they chat. Breen is eating while holding court, as Dick Murphy stares directly…

This is a black and white photo of the actor David Kelly at the festival club with Vida Breen and Margaret Kerrigan. The formally dressed group are sitting, with a colleague identified as Vaz Anderson, under an umbrella at the busy Harp…

This is a black and white photo of the actor Robert Shaw and Vida Breen at the entrance of the Capitol Cinema in Cork. Robert Shaw, in a dress suit, looks up towards the camera smiling, his hand linked through Vida Breen’s arm. She is dressed in a…