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Photographs by Mr Frank Browne SJ on his Italian trip undertaken with his brother Fr William Browne and Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne at Florence, Pisa, Pompeii and Venice (Doge’s Palace & San Macro). Captions by [Fr Eddie O’ Donnell SJ].

Positives and negatives of photographs taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ entitled ‘Burke Tour’, 1926, with captions. Note by Fr Frank Browne SJ ‘Burke Tour’, 1926:

1. There 73 positives
2. There are 23 negatives (including two that are not in positive form)
3. Nos 1-13 are from Start, through ‘Gap’ Knockmealdowns to
4. Nos. 14-29 Cashel
5. Nos. 30-35 Glendalough
6. Nos. 36-39 Kilkenny
7. Nos. 40-59 Kerry (Lakes of Killarney)
8. Nos. 60-73 Killarney to Gougana Barra (co. Cork)

Note by Fr Eddie O’ Donnell SJ that ‘All copied and catalogued’ (3 December 1991)’.

Missing from positives (1-73), are no. 9, and no. 21, therefore 71 in total.
16 positive duplicates; 2 positives in duplicates don’t appear in (1-73).
23 negatives (number in ink of 73 prints); 2 negatives, 35A and 69A not in positive form.

Copies of obituary notices for Fr Frank Browne SJ, 1960 (items damaged from fire at Gonzaga College, 5 May 1996).

Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone centenary issue of Bower Memories (Past Pupils Union). Page relating to Frank Browne (p. 7) has been removed.

Newspaper articles concerning Fr Browne's collection of 42,000 photographic negatives re-found in the basement of the Provincial’s house in Dublin by Fr Eddie O’Donnell SJ.

Letter from Christopher Date, Assistant Museum Archivist, The British Museum to Fr Eddie O’Donnell SJ on letters between the museum and Fr Frank Browne SJ, c.1936 regarding Fr Browne’s work (items damaged from fire at Gonzaga College, 5 May 1996).

Letter to Fr Eddie O’ Donnell SJ from [ ] Army Network, Bagshot, Surrey, England regarding Fr Frank Browne’s First World War record (item damaged from fire at Gonzaga College, 5 May 1996).

‘Photographer Extraordinary: The Life and Work of Father Browne’ by Fr E. E. O’Donnell SJ in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 79, No. 315 pp. 298-306.

Letter from Donald I. Findlay, Deputy Secretary, The Council for the Care of Churches, 83 London Wall, London to Fr Eddie O'Donnell SJ on the photographs taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ while engaged by the Council during the Second World War (item damaged from fire at Gonzaga College, 5 May 1996).

Invitation and booklet on an exhibition entitled, 'The Day Before Yesterday - Father Browne's Dublin, 1922-1949', curated by Peter Walsh, at the Guinness Hop Store, Dublin. Includes catalogue to 174 photographs exhibited. 'The Day Before Yesterday' became a six-part series which traced the origins of the Irish state through the photographs of Fr Browne. It was made by Promedia for RTÉ Television. The first episode was broadcast on 6 April 1994.

Article entitled ‘Fr. Browne’s Jesuit Ireland’ pp 24 - 29, by Fr Edward E O’Donnell SJ taken from Company, a magazine of the U.S. Jesuits. http://www.companysj.com/v252/jesuitireland/ireland.html http://www.companysj.com/v252/jesuitireland/ireland.pdf
accessed August 2009.

An Post produced four stamps commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. One of the 55c stamps, shows Fr Frank Browne SJ, who travelled aboard the Titanic from Southampton to Cork, with the Titanic at anchor off Cobh. Kept by Fr Eddie O'Donnell SJ.