This is a black and white undated photo of a film screening at the historic indoor English Market in Cork. The light of the projector can be seen on the crowded balcony that is home to the Farmgate Café. Downstairs, in the market foyer, the audience…
This is a stylised black and white photo of three unidentified guests taken at the 1996 festival. They stand together laughing in front of a sign for Murphy’s 41st Cork Film Festival. Two of the guests are wearing lanyards – one of which identifies…
This is a black and white photo of the festival founder Dermot Breen with festival delegates at the airport. The delegates are not identified but we recognise the English actor Linda Hayden standing at the foot of the Aer Lingus stairway with Breen.…
These black and white photos include Mick Hannigan who was the director of the Cork festival from 1986 and its CEO from 2009 to 2013. The photos are undated, but we might suggest they are from the late 1980s/early 1990s.We include the second photo of…
This is a black and white photograph marked: Brian Coomber at a festival gala screening. A bespectacled Coomber, wearing a light-coloured suit and turtle neck jumper, is shown seated at a table scattered with tableware, an ashtray, and some notes.…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor and fashionista Virginia Wetherell with a guest identified at the back of the photo as the Canadian JJ McArdle. They are talking to each other, seated at a table laden with the detritus of a meal.…
This is a black and white photo of the English screenwriter Michael Pertwee with the actors Suzanna Leigh, Virginia Wetherell and others who are unidentified. The five guests stand and pose for the camera as Pertwee turns towards Leigh standing at…
This is a black and white photo of film critic John Stapleton and actor Harry Towb with the harpist Deirdre O’Callaghan. The convivial group are at the festival club, standing in front of a poster advertising the French-Belgian film Rendezvous at…
This is a black and white photo of the English actor Jane Asher and a guest identified as Brian Wakefield from Harrogate in Yorkshire. They are both standing in front of a promotional poster for the Harp Lager-sponsored Cork Film Festival and smiling…
This is a black and white photo of sisters Ann and Vicki Michelle posing with Westropp Irvine from the Player and Wills tobacco company in Ireland. Player and Wills were friends of the film festival and supported it on occasion with a development…