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This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor Pat Kerrigan making a presentation to the composer Bernard Geary in the company of festival Chairman Donal Lehane, festival director Dermot Breen, and the tenor Kevin Owens. The Lord Mayor, wearing…

This black and white photo shows a group of men standing together posing for the camera. We recognise the filmmaker John Boorman standing at the far left in a cheque jacket. He stands alongside the Irish director Norman Cohen, in a dark jacket and…

This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor Tom Hickey with two unidentified companions. Hickey stands on the right of the photo in a check shirt. While Hickey is best known for playing the part of 'Benji Riordan' in the long-running Irish…

This black and white photo shows the festival director Dermot Breen in conversation with the chairman of the Film Appeals Board Conor Maguire. They are both wearing black-tie suits with a festival ribbon pinned to their lapel. Maguire (1922-2009),…

This is a black and white photo of festival delegates on a stage, lined up and arms linked. The convivial group, all dressed in evening wear, stretch out across the expanse of the stage and appear to be singing – we might hazard a guess that they are…

This black and white photo shows festival director Dermot Breen standing in a small group which includes the Fianna Fáil politician Jack Lynch on the right, pipe in hand. The group of four suited men are mid-conversation; Lynch is glancing towards…

The 2018 festival poster has a green and blue colour scheme with an emerald-green stripe on its left. To the right of the green stripe there is a blue-themed lightly pixelated image of a partially visible face with just the right eye showing. The eye…

The 2019 festival poster has an orange and purple colour scheme with a purple stripe on its left. To the right of the purple stripe, there is an image of a young man caught mid-flight in dance on an orange background; he is wearing an embellished…

The original 1985 programme is slim soft card-bound issue measuring 10cm x 21cm. The bind is stapled and it has 56 numbered pages. The pdf of the 1985 programme opens with a tribute to Sir Richard Attenborough and a selection of his films were shown…

This is an image of an An Poist (Irish Post) telegram, with an address of San Lorenzo Escorial, from Sophia Loren to the festival director Dermot Breen. It reads Sorry but impossible accept your king [sic] invitation because work regards Sophia…