Liam O'Leary with Cyril Cusack and others
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Title
Liam O'Leary with Cyril Cusack and others
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Liam O'Leary, Cyril Cusack , Dick Beamish, Irish Film Institute, Archive, Ashbourne House
Description
This is a black and white photo of the Irish actor Cyril Cusack holding court with the archivist Liam O’Leary and others. The small group is at a drinks reception on the grounds of Ashbourne House in Glounthaune, Cork, during the 1970s. The photo, which is water-damaged, also includes Dick Beamish, his unidentified colleague, and Jack Mahoney.
Liam O’Leary, on the far left of the photo turned towards Cusack, was born in 1910 in Youghal, County Cork. He was many things in life including film historian, filmmaker, author, actor, and founder of the Irish Film Society. And, perhaps most importantly for Ireland, he was an archivist. O’Leary was an acquisitions officer for the National Film Archive in London until 1966 when he returned to Ireland to work as a Film Acceptance Viewer for Radio Telefis Éireann. His love for the cinema was profound and he established the Liam O’Leary Archive to rescue Irish film-related objects, stories, and ephemera. He was the driving force behind the Irish Film Archive and his film collection is preserved there. (Kevin Brownlow, Obituary: Liam O’Leary, Independent, 18.12.1992.)
In 1986 the Liam O’Leary Archive was donated to the National Library of Ireland where it is now preserved. This archive of materials also includes correspondence, programme information, and newspaper clippings relating to the Cork International Film Festival and can be viewed in Special Collections of the National Library of Ireland.
Liam O’Leary, on the far left of the photo turned towards Cusack, was born in 1910 in Youghal, County Cork. He was many things in life including film historian, filmmaker, author, actor, and founder of the Irish Film Society. And, perhaps most importantly for Ireland, he was an archivist. O’Leary was an acquisitions officer for the National Film Archive in London until 1966 when he returned to Ireland to work as a Film Acceptance Viewer for Radio Telefis Éireann. His love for the cinema was profound and he established the Liam O’Leary Archive to rescue Irish film-related objects, stories, and ephemera. He was the driving force behind the Irish Film Archive and his film collection is preserved there. (Kevin Brownlow, Obituary: Liam O’Leary, Independent, 18.12.1992.)
In 1986 the Liam O’Leary Archive was donated to the National Library of Ireland where it is now preserved. This archive of materials also includes correspondence, programme information, and newspaper clippings relating to the Cork International Film Festival and can be viewed in Special Collections of the National Library of Ireland.
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Rights
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
251 x 199mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Liam O'Leary with Cyril Cusack and others,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed April 21, 2024, https://oceaned.ucc.ie/items/show/404.