Jesuit Photographer: Fr. Francis Browne, S.J.

In 1985 a collection of 42,000 photographs – among them, remarkable images and mementoes of the Titanic’s ill-fated voyage – was uncovered in a Dublin basement. They were the work of one man, Francis Browne, a Jesuit priest, who began taking pictures in 1897 and continued to do so until shortly before his death in 1960. Father Browne was, in the words of one critic, “a master photographer with an unerring eye” and his photographs constitute a valuable chronicle of life in the first part of the 20th century. The last photograph of the Titanic, taken by Father Browne as she left Queenstown (Cobh) in Ireland to set across the Atlantic. The Titanic’s passage from Southampton to Ireland (where Father Browne was fortuitously ordered to disembark by his superior), and thence to its doom at the bottom of the Atlantic in April, 1912.

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