This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor of Cork Seán O'Leary at a dinner reception for the composer Bernard Geary and the tenor Kevin Owens. The Lord Mayor, wearing the chain of office, is standing at the round dinner table making a speech…
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 black and white photo of a dinner, or lunch, party attended by Barbara Vance who is the only guest identified at the back of the photo. The thirteen guests, all of whom are smiling for the camera, sit on either side of a long table with the…
This is a black and white photo of the Czech-born German film actor Winnie Markus at a meal. She is shown mid-bite, eating a sausage, smiling up towards the camera. Markus is dressed in a light-coloured sleeveless evening gown decorated with…
This is one of a few colour photos in the archive. It shows the English actor Mollie Peters, sitting with the festival director Dermot Breen. They are seated side-by-side at a dinner table and Peters, wearing an emerald green dress, is shown in…
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 photo of a convivial scene including Luisa Della Noce being fed spaghetti by festival director Dermot Breen. Della Noce is wearing a velvet fur-trimmed dress and holding a cigarette in her left hand as she leans in towards…