Award presentation with Jack Lynch

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Title

Award presentation with Jack Lynch

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Jack Lynch, Award

Description

This is a black and white photo of a young Jack Lynch at an award presentation with an unidentified colleague. A St Finbarr statuette, inside a wooden box, is being exchanged and, on the table behind Lynch, we can make out a stack of boxed festival awards next to a crystal decanter.

The Fianna Fáil politician Jack Lynch (1917-1999) was born in Shandon, Cork. He went to school in the North Mon and was by all accounts a great sportsman originally playing with Glen Rovers in Blackpool, Cork. Lynch loved sport and would credit it with teaching him how to be part of a team and how to cope with victory and defeat. He worked as parliamentary secretary for Eamon de Valera and succeeded Sean Lemass in 1966. Lynch would go on to serve as Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979. (Jack Lynch, 'My Life and Times', Magill Magazine, 29.11.1979.)

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, RW Hammond

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Date

1960

Contributor

RW Hammond

Rights

©RW Hammond. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

1960
Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

216 x 163mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, RW Hammond , “Award presentation with Jack Lynch,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 21, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/258.