Theo Dorgan with a colleague and the 1986 festival programme
Dublin Core
Title
Theo Dorgan with a colleague and the 1986 festival programme
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Theo Dorgan
Description
This is a black and white photo of the celebrated Cork-born poet Theo Dorgan, on the left in a leather jacket, with an unidentified companion. They are both looking down at the programme for the 31st Cork International Film Festival which took place in 1986 (and helps us date this photo). Dorgan had just taken over the film festival that year, along with Mick Hannigan, and this photo might be from the launch of that years’ festival.
Dorgan’s name, together with Hannigan, is intrinsically tied up with the film festival in the mid-eighties and beyond. They took it on together in 1986 after the resignation of the then-director Robin O’Sullivan, who had gamely run it for some years following the unexpected death of festival founder Dermot Breen in 1978. Dorgan and Hannigan ran the festival together until 1989, when Dorgan moved on following his appointment as director of Poetry Ireland.
Dorgan, a graduate of University College Cork - where he also taught - is a member of the Irish arts organisation Aosdána and was an appointee of the Arts Council from 2003 to 2008. His most recent work includes Liberty Walks Naked (from the French of Maram al-Masri) (Southword Editions, Cork, 2017), Orpheus (Dedalus Press, 2018), Bailéid Giofógacha (from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca) (Coiscéim, Baila Átha Cliath, 2019), and The Abduction (from the French of Maram al-Masri) (Southword Editions, Cork, 2020).
Dorgan’s name, together with Hannigan, is intrinsically tied up with the film festival in the mid-eighties and beyond. They took it on together in 1986 after the resignation of the then-director Robin O’Sullivan, who had gamely run it for some years following the unexpected death of festival founder Dermot Breen in 1978. Dorgan and Hannigan ran the festival together until 1989, when Dorgan moved on following his appointment as director of Poetry Ireland.
Dorgan, a graduate of University College Cork - where he also taught - is a member of the Irish arts organisation Aosdána and was an appointee of the Arts Council from 2003 to 2008. His most recent work includes Liberty Walks Naked (from the French of Maram al-Masri) (Southword Editions, Cork, 2017), Orpheus (Dedalus Press, 2018), Bailéid Giofógacha (from the Spanish of Federico García Lorca) (Coiscéim, Baila Átha Cliath, 2019), and The Abduction (from the French of Maram al-Masri) (Southword Editions, Cork, 2020).
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1986
Rights
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
1986
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
200 x 252mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
, “Theo Dorgan with a colleague and the 1986 festival programme,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 30, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/372.