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This is a PDF of the 1990 festival programme. The 1990 cover, designed by Kieran O’Connor, is of a photographic gritty realist scene comprising a large silver film reel against a concrete distressed-coloured grey/blue-black background. The programme…

This is an image of an An Poist (Irish Post) telegram, with an address of San Lorenzo Escorial, from Sophia Loren to the festival director Dermot Breen. It reads Sorry but impossible accept your king [sic] invitation because work regards Sophia…

The original 1961 programme is a soft card-bound issue measuring 20.5cm x 13.5cm. The bind is stapled and it has 40 numbered pages. The pdf of the 1961 programme includes profiles of the film critic Jerzy Bossak, film critic Charles Ford, German film…

The original 1959 Tóstal-Festival of Cork souvenir programme is a soft card-bound issue measuring 17cm x 24.5cm. The bind is stapled and it has 60 numbered pages. The pdf contains a number of images and advertisements, as well as articles about Cork…

The original 1959 programme is a soft card-bound issue measuring 16.5cm x 24cm. The bind is stapled and it has 40 numbered pages. There is some minor wear & tear on the cover – particularly around the staples on the bind. The inside cover is…

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 group photo of delegates at the 1957 Cork Film Festival. The formally dressed group are mostly standing facing the camera. The festival director Dermot Breen is crouched down on his haunches in the front of the group along…

The 1959 festival programme cover is black with a white insert onto which an image and the text is printed. The image is one of the world aligned with what seems like the frame of a screen through which we can view the globe. The continents of…

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 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,…