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This is a black and white contact sheet of festival staff Mick Hannigan and Theo Dorgan. The contact sheet comprises four strips, with nine images in total. The numbered images show three head and shoulder publicity shots each of Dorgan and Hannigan…

This is a black and white photo of a Canadian delegation to the Cork festival dated 1970. The photo was formerly framed and marked with details of the small group on its front and includes, from left to right, the Canadian Ambassador, James Joachim…

This is a black and white photo of Denis (Dinny) Gould's retirement party in June 1971. The photo notes that the party was a ‘Farewell to Captain Denis Gould’ who was festival secretary since its inception in 1956. The convivial crowd are gathered…

This is a signed black and white publicity photo of the English actor Dawn Addams. A glamourous Addams is posing in an elaborate gown accessorised with large earrings that glint in the flash of the camera. The photo is signed in pen which is fading…

This is a black and white photo of the German film actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz and festival director Dermot Breen. Scholz, wearing a velvet cape over a dark dress trimmed with white fur, is shown in profile smiling up at Breen as they chat. Whorls of…

This black and white publicity photo of the German actor Winnie Markus was taken by the German photographer Arthur Grimm (1908-1990) - one of the most important photographers of the Nazi era. In 1936 he was responsible for the publicity stills of…

This is a black and white publicity headshot of the actor Dawn Addams. She is shown looking directly at the camera wide-eyed and lips parted. Addams (1930-1985) was very much a Hollywood star in the 1950s and her visit to Cork during this era was a…

This is a black and white publicity photo of a young Dawn Addams posing on the metal handrails of a concrete staircase. Dressed in jeans with cowboy boots - her left leg stretched out on the handrail – she is shown looking over her left shoulder…

This is a signed black and white publicity photo of the Lithuanian-born English actor and director Laurence Harvey (1928-1973). It shows Harvey, in a dark polo neck jumper, looking directly at the lens of the camera. The photo is signed and dedicated…

This is a black and white signed publicity photo of the English actor and director David Hemmings. The picture shows the actor, wearing a light-coloured wave-patterned shirt, facing the camera gesticulating as he talks.The photo is signed and…