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This is a black and white photo from 1974 during the mayoralty of Pearse Wyse. It shows the Lord Mayor seated with festival committee colleagues as they listen to a speaker at the microphone. The photo identifies the small group as Brother Jerome,…

This black and white photo shows a formally dressed George McSweeney (or McSwiney) sitting at the piano of the Cork City Hall in a photo marked ‘60s or 70s’. It might be the 1970s as we have an archive photo of an award presentation that was…

This is a black and white photo of five Jury members in a photo marked 1970s. The photo only identifies the archivist Liam O’Leary sitting second left, wearing a patterned dickie bow. Liam O’Leary (1910-1992), from Youghal, County Cork, was a film…

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 Jamaican director Trevor Rhone in conversation with an unidentified delegate at a festival function. Rhone, wearing a light-coloured polo neck jumper under a white suit, is standing while talking to a young lady…

This is a black and white photo of the Dublin-born film director and producer Norman Cohen shaking hands with the festival director Dermot Breen. A bearded Cohen, wearing a light-coloured utility jacket, is smiling as he chats with Breen. While there…

This is a black and white photo of the sculptor Séamus Murphy and his daughter, Bebhinn Marten, in conversation with the Cork politician Peter Barry. The convivial group is dressed formally, and Marten, wearing a flower-decorated light-coloured…

This is a black and white photo of Mary Tilson who was Miss Movie Girl in 1975. Tilson, wearing a light-coloured jumper and sash, is shown standing in front of a backdrop depicting a pencil drawing of St Patrick's Bridge and beyond.

This is a black and white group photo taken in 1974 and includes the Lord Mayor Pearse Wyse at its centre with contestants from that years Miss Movie Girl competition on the stairs behind him. The group include the actors Simon Williams and Jane…

This is a black and white photo of Miss Movie Girl, Mary Tilson, making a presentation to the filmmaker Louis Marcus in 1975. Tilson, wearing a long light-coloured evening dress and sash marked Movie Girl ’75, is presenting an award made from…