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This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor Seán O’Leary, scissors in hand, and unidentified festival guests at the opening of the Harp Lager-sponsored festival club. The Fine Gael politician Seán O'Leary (1941-2006) was an Irish accountant,…

This is an undated black and white photo of a symphony orchestra playing on the stage at the Cork City Hall. The all-male symphony orchestra is not identified but we note that they are all standing, as is the audience, and they might be playing the…

This is a black and white photo of the ‘Original Tóstal Council’ standing on the steps of the City Hall in Cork. The photo is undated but we can suggest the mid-fifties when Tóstal was inaugurated in Cork.

The Cork Film Festival emerged from An…

This is a black and white photo of the American theatre and film director Otto Preminger with the English actor Dawn Addams. In this picture Preminger, in a dark suit and bow-tie, is turned towards Addams with his left arm around her shoulders.…

This is a black and white photo of the American theatre and film director, Otto Preminger, taken on Patrick Street outside the Savoy Cinema. In this picture Preminger, in a dark suit and bow-tie, is walking purposefully towards the cinema accompanied…

This is a black and white photo of a party being held at the Garda Barracks on MacCurtain Street in Cork. Marked 1962 the photo identifies four of the revellers to be the actor Ronnie Shiner, the local businessman Donal Crosbie, Norma Crosbie and…

These black and white photos show the then Fianna Fáil minister Dr Patrick Hillery with Tony Halpin and Mrs Halpin, Dermot Breen and Gus Healy. The small group, pressed up against the dark curtains behind them, chat and laugh as they introduce…

This is a black and white photo of the British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha standing with a group of colleagues including festival director Dermot Breen. The group of seven, dressed in travel attire, pose genially for the camera in front of the…

This is a black and white photo of the German-born English actor Peter Gilmore on stage with an unidentified companion. Gilmore, in a long-line velvet jacket, and his colleague, in a white frill-trimmed dress, are holding microphones and appear to be…

This is a sepia-toned photograph, dated 1963, of the actor Peter O’Toole walking with the festival director Dermot Breen and the journalist Leslie Mallory. All three are shown smiling whilst in conversation. A dapper-looking O’Toole, in glasses on…