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This is a black and white photo, marked 1956, of a Rank Organisation trip to Cobh, County Cork. The photo shows a small group of film festival visitors, dressed in daywear, both seated and standing on the deck of a boat. In the background, we can…

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 1956 black and white photo of Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, DBE, known professionally as the English stage and film actor Anna Neagle (1904-1986). She is seen walking along the platform of the Cork-Kent train station in conversation with…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Tony Wright and Vida Breen. Wright was a Rank Organisation contract player for some years. He is shown in conversation with Vida Breen, the wife of the festival director Dermot Breen, at a dinner…

This is a black and white photo of festival attendees taken during the 1956 film festival. The group are dressed in formal evening wear, with the men wearing dark evening suits and Moira Lister wearing an off-the-shoulder long dark-coloured gown.…

This is a black and white photo of the Lord Mayor, Patrick McGrath, kissing the Blarney Stone with the help of the English actor Tony Wright and the Irish actor Noel Purcell. Wearing a dark suit the Lord Mayor is shown leaning back to kiss the 'Stone…

This is a black and white photo of the festival director Dermot Breen (1924-1978) taken in 1957. Breen is smiling up at the camera while seated at a large desk in front of an equally large poster advertising 'Tostal Corcai 1957' (Cork Pageant or…

This is a black and white photo of the English actor June Thorburn leaning back to kiss the Blarney Stone at the Blarney Castle, Cork. Thorburn is dressed in a dark top with a light-coloured blouse and is smiling up at the camera as she leans…

This is a black and white photo of eight programme sellers, identified at the back of the photo as the 'first programme sellers'. The young women are dressed in above-the-knee dresses and low-heeled court shoes. They stand together in a…

This is a black and white photograph of festival delegates in a photo marked '1956'. All are dressed in formal evening wear with the men in dark suits and bow-ties and the women in evening wear. In particular, we notice the light-coloured…