Festival Mass Choir

Festival Mass Choir

Cork Film Festival, Festival Mass, St Francis Church, Umberto Noni

This is a black and white photo of an unidentified choir participating at the annual film festival mass. We can see the back of the choir, facing the conductor, as they sing. The conductor is looking down at his music - his arms raised in gesticulation. To the right of the choir an organist, his music strewn on the lid of the piano, accompanies the choir. Below them we can see the congregation seated in church pews that stretch before us and up as far as the mosaic-tiled apse that surrounds the marble altar. The Church is not identified but we can tell from this photo that it is the interior of St Francis Church on Liberty Street in Cork. With its Byzantine-styled red-brick exterior the Church and Friary of St Francis was founded on Liberty Street in the mid-nineteenth century, before being rebuilt in July 1953. It is tucked behind the Cork Courthouse and partially stands on the site of old Broad Lane Church. Whilst typical in style for 1950s Ireland it retains notable interior fittings that distinguish it, such as its stained glass windows and doors. It is spacious, full of light and decorated with mosaics designed in the main by the Italian artist, Professor Umberto Noni who declared it to be 'the very crowning of [his] life's work'.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

Donal Sheehan

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TIFF
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English, eng

Cork, Ireland

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254 x 202mm