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The 1998 festival poster is a painterly representation of a large yellow face, slightly smiling - we can only see the edge of the mouth - looking out at the viewer from the right edge of the poster. Half the face is shown with the focus on the right…

The 2009 festival poster is a painterly image, by the Swiss artist Georges Schwizgebel, of two creatures looking at each other in a glade or garden setting. The doe and the dog are facing off tentatively. The shadow of a tree falls over them. The…

The 2010 festival poster is a stylised graphic design of three large male heads, against a white background strewn with random shapes in various colours and size. The three faces are gazing up towards the upper right of the poster. It appears that a…

This is a promotional poster for Murphy’s Irish Stout. Murphy’s Irish Stout was a main sponsor of the Cork Film Festival for many years. The image is of a pint glass filled with Murphy’s Irish Stout - a black dry stout brewed in Cork; the glass is…

This is a black and white photo of the German film actor Eva-Ingeborg Scholz (1928-) sitting on a carpeted step with the film festival director Dermot Breen (1924-1978). Scholz, in a dark dress trimmed with a white fur collar and accessorised with…

This is a black and white photo of President Seán T.O'Kelly in 1956 standing with the theatre and cinema impresario Louis Elliman, and others identified at the back of the photo as Father J.A.V.Bourke and Major Halliman. President Kelly is standing…

This is a black and white photo of the Fianna Fáil politician Jack Lynch (1917-1999) on the right presenting a St Finbarr statuette to Vasgen Badal in his capacity as leader of the German delegation. The Press Comments section of the 1959 Festival of…

This is a black and white photo of the art deco façade of the Cork Savoy cinema on Patrick Street, advertising the 1959 festival. Flags of the participating countries adorn the building in a daytime street scene. A group of boys on the left of the…

This is a black and white group photo from 1956 consisting of nine men and three women all dressed formally in evening wear. The three women are the English actors Josephine Griffin, June Thorburn, and Maureen Swanson and all are dressed in…

This is a black and white photograph of Éamon de Valera raising the Tóstal flag. While the photograph is not dated we might guess it was taken during the early tenure of his presidency in the fifties, during which time Patrick McGrath served as Lord…