This is a black and white photo of the English-born actor Carol Cleveland with two unidentified colleagues at a presentation. Wearing a long patterned dress accessorised with an elaborate necklace, Cleveland is turned towards the compere smiling.…
This is a black and white group photo of five festival guests chatting informally at a drinks reception. The photo only identifies festival friend Eddie Nolan and ‘Scottish actor – middle’. Nolan (1940-2013) was a managing director for the Ford Motor…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen with the artist and journalist Frank Sanquest and the politician, and former Lord Mayor of Cork, Gus Healy. Gus Healy, seated on the far left, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician…
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…
This is a black and white photo, taken during the 1980s, of the sculptor Patrick O’Sullivan in conversation with festival director Robin O’Sullivan. Patrick O’Sullivan is sitting on Robin O’Sullivan’s desk who is looking up at him as they talk. A…
This is a black and white photo of the American actor Hurd Hatfield standing with two festival guests from Ballinlough in Cork. Hatfield, in a dress suit, is smiling as he looks to his right at his young companion. On his left a lady, in a white…
This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen standing in front of a large display board with an unidentified colleague. The two men chat as Breen rests his left hand on the display for the film The Adventures of Barry…
This is a black and white photo taken at the Imperial Hotel of a festival attendee holding a large bouquet of flowers accompanied by fellow festival delegates. Some of the group are identified at the back of the photo and include Mary O’Keeffe, Jim…
This is a black and white photo of the actors John Clive, Pamela Stephenson and Nicholas Ball in a photo dated 1970. All three are facing the camera smiling. Clive and Ball wear a festival ribbon pinned to their jackets and we also notice how the…
These black and white images of a press conference are taken upstairs at the Savoy Cinema, Cork, during the 1970s. The photographs, by the photographer Donal Sheehan, include the festival director Dermot Breen holding forth alongside the journalist…