Theo Dorgan and others with the 1986 festival programme
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Title
Theo Dorgan and others with the 1986 festival programme
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Theo Dorgan
Description
This is a black and white photo of the celebrated poet, writer, translator, and broadcaster Theo Dorgan with two unidentified guests at a drinks reception for the film festival. Dorgan, on the right in a light-coloured jacket and glass in hand, is looking down at the programme of the 31st Cork Film Festival which took place in 1986. He had just taken over the film festival, along with Mick Hannigan, and this photo might be from the launch of that years’ festival. The location is not identified but given the artwork hanging on the walls behind them we might suggest the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.
Theo Dorgan’s name, together with Mick Hannigan, is intrinsically tied up with the early days of Hannigan’s tenureship of the festival. Born in Cork in 1953, Dorgan was educated at the North Monastery School and University College Cork where he later taught. Dorgan managed the literature programme at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork from 1977 to 1979 crossing paths with Mick Hannigan and together they took on the then-struggling Cork Film Festival in 1986. He was later appointed director of Poetry Ireland and moved on from the festival in 1989. Dorgan has presented Poetry Now, the Inprint series, and The Invisible Thread, on RTÉ and Lyric FM radio. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love (Salmon Publishing, Galway, 1991) (which was republished in 1998 with Rosa Mundi in the single volume What this Earth Cost Us [Dedalus Press, 2008]), Sappho’s Daughter (Wave Train Press, 1998), Greek (Dedalus Press, 2010), and Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus Press, 2014) for which he was awarded the 2015 Poetry Now Award. With a keen interest in sailing Dorgan published his memoirs Sailing for Home (Dedalus Press, 2004) and Time on the Ocean (New Island Books, 2010). He was appointed to the Irish arts foundation Aosdána in 1999 and was an appointee of the Arts Council from 2003 to 2008.
Theo Dorgan’s name, together with Mick Hannigan, is intrinsically tied up with the early days of Hannigan’s tenureship of the festival. Born in Cork in 1953, Dorgan was educated at the North Monastery School and University College Cork where he later taught. Dorgan managed the literature programme at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork from 1977 to 1979 crossing paths with Mick Hannigan and together they took on the then-struggling Cork Film Festival in 1986. He was later appointed director of Poetry Ireland and moved on from the festival in 1989. Dorgan has presented Poetry Now, the Inprint series, and The Invisible Thread, on RTÉ and Lyric FM radio. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love (Salmon Publishing, Galway, 1991) (which was republished in 1998 with Rosa Mundi in the single volume What this Earth Cost Us [Dedalus Press, 2008]), Sappho’s Daughter (Wave Train Press, 1998), Greek (Dedalus Press, 2010), and Nine Bright Shiners (Dedalus Press, 2014) for which he was awarded the 2015 Poetry Now Award. With a keen interest in sailing Dorgan published his memoirs Sailing for Home (Dedalus Press, 2004) and Time on the Ocean (New Island Books, 2010). He was appointed to the Irish arts foundation Aosdána in 1999 and was an appointee of the Arts Council from 2003 to 2008.
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.
Relation
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
254 x 202mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Theo Dorgan and others with the 1986 festival programme,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 30, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/416.