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This is a black and white photo of a press conference taken during the late 1970s. The press corps is seated in front of the main desk where the film festival director, Dermot Breen, sits at the microphone taking questions from them. An audience is…

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…

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 the English film producer Greg Smith in conversation with the Irish producer Noel Pearson and Ciara Scott. Given the background décor of Harp Lager-sponsored umbrellas, we might guess that this picture was taken at…

This is a black and white publicity photo of a young Dawn Addams posing on the metal handrails of a concrete staircase. Dressed in jeans with cowboy boots - her left leg stretched out on the handrail – she is shown looking over her left shoulder…

This is a signed black and white publicity photo of the Irish actor David Kelly in a posed headshot. He is shown facing off-centre in contemplation while staring into the distance. We can just make out the glint of his ring on his index finger. The…

This is a black and white publicity headshot of the actor Dawn Addams. She is shown looking directly at the camera wide-eyed and lips parted. Addams (1930-1985) was very much a Hollywood star in the 1950s and her visit to Cork during this era was a…

This is a small black and white publicity head-shot of the German film and television actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz (1928-) dated 1958.

This is a black and white publicity photo of the English actor Lynda Bellingham attributed to PR services, Dublin. Bellingham, wearing a light-coloured dress, is shown glancing upwards and smiling as she eats from a napkin-covered dish. Lynda…

This is an undated black and white publicity headshot of festival director Dermot Breen (1924-1978). Breen was the driving force behind the inception of the festival in 1956 as part of An Tóstal; he was at its helm until his death in 1978 after which…