Frank Sanquest and Dermot Breen in conversation

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Title

Frank Sanquest and Dermot Breen in conversation

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Frank Sanquest, Dermot Breen

Description

This is a black and white photo of the festival director, Dermot Breen, in conversation with the artist and journalist Frank Sanquest.

Breen, with a cigarette in hand, was a colleague of Sanquest for many years – they would have come across each other in Cork through their involvement with the theatre. For example, when the Cork Opera House burnt down in 1954 the Palace theatre, then managed by Dermot Breen, stepped in offering its stage to the Cork Operatic Society. Sanquest was then set-designer for the Cork Opera House and the Cork Operatic Society. By the late fifties Breen gave up managing the theatre in order to run the film festival and his job at the Palace was taken over by Dan Donovan.

Frank Sanquest was also a journalist for the then Cork Examiner and worked as its arts editor from 1940 to 1987. He was the father of five children with his wife Rose, including the artist Kevin Sanquest and the writer Rosalind (Roz) Crowley. In 2009 Kevin Sanquest created a national portrait collection in Fota House, Carrigtwohill, Cork, titled Inheritance – Honouring the Cork Legacy; he passed away in 2013. Interestingly Kevin Sanquest was the first manager of the Cork music legend Rory Gallagher and the band Taste. His sister, the journalist and author Roz Crowley, refers to the legacy of Rory Gallagher in her book Macroom Mountain Dew – Memories of Ireland’s First Rock Festival (OnStream Publications Ltd., 2016). (‘Frank Sanquest obituary: All-round artist with a love for the theatre,’ irishtimes.com, 12.01.2008; Vera Ryan, Dan Donovan: An Everyman’s Life, The Collins Press, 2008; Barry Roche, ‘Book marks 40th year of Macroom Mountain Dew Festival,’ irishtimes.com, 15.06.2016.)

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Cork Examiner

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Contributor

Cork Examiner

Rights

©Examiner Publications (Cork) Ltd. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

217 x 162 mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Cork Examiner, “Frank Sanquest and Dermot Breen in conversation,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed October 14, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/394.