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This is a black and white photo of Father Burke with a group of film festival delegates from the first year of the festival in 1956. Father Burke is standing on the left in a dark suit and white-collar, his colleagues on the right are both in dark…

This is a black and white photo of the popular French film actor Barbara Laage (1920-1988) in a rural scene, riding on a cart being pulled by a white donkey. Laage, with her short wavy blond hair tied back in a light-coloured headscarf, is wearing a…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams fishing on the River Lee along the South Mall in Cork. Wearing a light-coloured summer dress accessorised with a coloured headband tied into her dark hair, Addams is facing the river…

This is a black and white photo of Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo from Rome, the husband of the English actor Dawn Addams, taken at the Cork Telephone Exchange. Massimo is shown, wearing a light-coloured suit, laughing whilst bent over speaking…

This is a black and white photo of Vida (née Daly) Breen with Prince Vittorio Massimo of Rome who was then the husband of the English actor Dawn Addams. Vida Breen was the wife of the film festival director, Dermot Breen, whom she married in 1952. In…

This is a black and white photo of President Seán T.O'Kelly in 1956 standing with the theatre and cinema impresario Louis Elliman, and others identified at the back of the photo as Father J.A.V.Bourke and Major Halliman. President Kelly is standing…

This is a black and white photo of the art deco façade of the Cork Savoy cinema on Patrick Street, advertising the 1959 festival. Flags of the participating countries adorn the building in a daytime street scene. A group of boys on the left of the…

This is a black and white photo of the film festival director Dermot Breen and three women marked as 'Italian Girls' on the back of the photo. Breen is shown laughing in the centre of the photo surrounded by the three women who are smiling towards…

This is a photo of the the English actor Dawn Addams embracing the film festival director Dermot Breen. Addams is shown in profile with her arms around Breen who is smiling up above the eyeline of the camera. Both are in formal wear with Addams…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams being interviewed by the RTÉ broadcaster Maxwell Sweeney in 1957. Sweeney (1909-1991) was an RTÉ radio broadcaster and producer; the RTÉ archives notes that he started work with RTÉ in…