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This collection by renowned photographer, Francis Browne SJ, portays both the photographer's vision and the city's energy as it changes during the first half of the twentieth century. Father Browne focuses on the people of Dublin, at work, at play and watching the world go by. This is a city of children, window shoppers, churchgoers, canals, bridges, trams and trains. Grand houses and tenements, middle classes and poor, industry and hospitals, all...
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As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill-fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. As well as taking a unique set of photos, Father Browne also assembled an incredibly valuable album of Titanic material such as an original deck plan, menus, letters to him from fellow passengers, contemporary newspaper cuttings and other documents, many of which are reproduced here. Thanks to the gift of a...
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"the most important documentary historian of this century" The Irish Times In 1985 Eddie O'Donnell SJ found a tin trunk containing 42,000 negatives, the life's work of Francis Browne SJ. Father Browne was a passenger on the Titanic and, when the ship sank, his photos were, printed on the front pages of newspapers throughout the world. 1n 1916 he joined up as a chaplain to the British Army serving with the Irish Guards on the front line during the...
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Father Francis Browne SJ, Titanic photographer and much decorated war chaplain, began to take flying lessons at Baldonnell Aerodrome, near Dublin, in 1925. His first aerial photographs were, taken in 1926 and he was still flying over County Dublin in light aircraft until the 1930s. It was in the 1940s, however, that Fr Browne took most of his photographs of aircraft and airports. Aviation had developed greatly and grass airstrips gave way to concrete...
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