Showing 123 results

Letter from Mrs Lily Odell, Stile House, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England (fellow passenger of Mr Frank Browne SJ on-board the Titanic, who disembarked at Queenstown), addressed 'To the Canon of Queenstown Cathedral), enquiring after a fellow passenger, complimenting Mr Browne’s photographs in the Daily Sketch and describing her holidays in Ireland.

Letter from J.J. Brennan, Bellvue, Queenstown, Cork. Includes copy of Lloyds Gazette, 18 December 1912 which mentions the summary of coast of the Titanic Inquiry.

Positives of ships including:
“The Arabic”;
Henderson collapsibles on “Arabic”;
Steerage section of “Arabic”;
Danish sailing ship “Atacama” with tender “Forth”;
Aft view of “Baltic” from the tender (1912);
Extra boats on the “Baltic” after the great “Titanic” disaster (1912);
Bumboats (water-carriers) and tenders at “Majestic”;
White Star Liner of the olden time The “Majestic”;
“Before we shipped to sea” – tender leaving “Megantic” (1912); 2 items
“After we shipped to sea” – tender leaving “Megantic” (1912);
The “Megantic”;
Mounting the gangway “Megantic” (1912);
Hoisting the gangway “Megantic” (1912);
“All on board the tenders” Queenstown for “Oceanic”; A fall in the mail - “Oceanic”;
Contraband trade “Oceanic”, 2 items;
“Oceanic”, 4 items;
“Sounding” - “Oceanic”;
“Olympic” a tender as seen from the shore (1912);
“Olympic” (1912);
“Berthon” Collapsible on boat deck of “Olympic”;
Tenders tending “Olympic” (1912);
“Olympic” (White Star Line & “Haverford” (American Line) - 1912;
On board tender, leaving “Titanic” (1912);
On the tender, Queenstown, 3 items;
Pilot at Spithead “Titanic” (1912);
Gymnasium “Titanic” (1912) Mr T.W. McCawley, Physical Educator;
Sunrise – (moonlight) at sea (“Titanic”) - 1912;
Tender leaving the ship “Titanic” (1912);
Under the Bridge “Titanic” (1912);
The crew of the “Neptun”;
‘A fair breeze on a Summer sea’ – Yachting in Cork Harbour: Names from left: Master Jeff Sheehan (nephew of Canon Sheehan); Mr A.H. Allen (owner of “Sybil”); yachtsman; Mr Davis (Secretary to Admiral Coke); Mr Florence McCarthy; Mr Harold Allen, 3 items;
R.C.Y.C “Sybil” (owner A.H. Allen Esq.) Winner of Kingstown-Holyhead race on Whit Saturday, 2 items;
Cork Harbour – Mr Harold Allen rowing Mr A.H. Allen and Mr Florence McCarthy;
Moon’s silver path – Cork Head (1913);
“Blackthorns” Queenstown (Mrs Galvin) [Annie Galvin, 1911 census];
From U.S.A. at Queenstown;
White Star workers, Queenstown;
Tenders returning Queenstown;
Landing from U.S.A. at Queenstown;
German training ship “Hertzogen Cecilie”, stowing the anchor;
Daunt’s Rock Lightship, Cork Harbour 1912;
Cunard S.S. Franconia full speed ahead. American Line S.S. “Haverford “ in background;
Steerage “Haverford “;
Gangway to “Haverford “ on outward journey;
Two photographs by H. Peberdy of ‘Margaret’ off Cape Horn;

Fr Frank Browne SJ captions on reverse. Many are in Fr Browne’s Titanic album.

Copies of The Belvederian (1912), the Cork Constitution article (13 April 1912) and articles/notes on the Titanic (2012).

Printed out photographs of the RMS Olympic taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ.

Photograph of aid post with Fr John Gwynn SJ (c.1914) faded photograph of Fr Willie Doyle SJ; Jesuits at Portnoo (1910); telegram announcing Fr Willie Doyle’s death; letter between Rev. Mother, Sister Benedict of the Convent of Locre, Belgium and Fr William F. Browne C.C. (21-31 August 1917), Fr Frank Browne’s brother.

‘Chief Baptiste George and gran daughter beside some rock paintings’ and ‘Indian boys sketching paintings to be used for making Indian designs’ (279A1), and other craft works. This may relate to the area around Kelowna and Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, therefore not taken by Fr Frank Browne SJ. Captions on reverse are not in Fr Browne’s hand. The photograph of 'Indian boys sketching' has stamp of Stocks Photographer, Penticton.

Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway. Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, James McCann, John Mary O'Connor and Robert Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill;.

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].

Photograph of Pope Pius X, taken after Mr Frank Browne SJ and his uncle, Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne, had a private Mass with the Pope.

Map of Cork with Frank Browne’s birthplace marked in red.

Results for Francis M Browne from the Royal University of Ireland: Matriculation Examination (Summer 1900), First University Examination (Summer 1901) and Second University Examination in Arts (1906).

Album, with note on inside ‘Positive pack 1 (2897) Suggest No.2: Menton, France & No.17: Arch of Titus, Rome. Photographs have been removed from the album. Pencil annotations on the album (not in Mr Frank Browne SJ hand) are in written here in italic.

1. Sister Josephine, Ursuline, b. 1870
2. Menton (on reverse) ‘Photo taken by Fr Earley. Stormy on the sands at Humewood P.E. Nov – 1902’. (Humewood is a coastal area, Port Elizabeth, South Africa).
3. Cobh (on reverse) - ‘To dearest Joe With love From Sissie Oct. 31st 1902.
4. Menton
5. Rome
6. Rome
7. Rome
8. Fontana de Trevi (Rome)
9. (Menton, France)
10. Venice
11. San Marcs, Venice
12. Doge’s Palace, Venice
13. Via Appia
14. Via Appia
15. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
16. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
17. Arch of Titus, Rome
18. Rome
19. Rome
20. (Tour of Italy, Greece)
21. Pompeii?
22. Pompeii?
23. Naples
24. Genoa
25. Rome
26. Rome?
27. (altar)
28. Venice
29. Milan
30. (Switzerland)
31. (Switzerland?)
32. (Switzerland?)
33. (Switzerland?)
34. (Switzerland?)
35. (Switzerland?) 35
36. Menton?
37. Cork
38. 1 38 Sheet 2 Cork
39. 2 39 Timahoe
40. 3 40 Switzerland
41. 4 41 Switzerland?
42. 5 42 Switzerland? Bellanzama?
43. 7 43
44. 8 44 Monte Carlo?

File of photographs belonging/taken by Fr Bernard Page SJ:

• Boys at Clongowes
• Jesuit villa house, Rossdhu, Moyard, Connemara, Galway (1906)
• Celtic Cross and Round Tower, Monasterboice, Louth
• Cong Abbey, Mayo
• Murrisk Abbey, Mayo
• Achill Head, Mayo
• Burrishoole Abbey, Mayo
• Lord Ardilaun’s seat, Ashford, Cong, Mayo
• Ashford Castle, Cong, Mayo
• Milltown Villa group (1909)
• Distant view of Muilrea, Mayo
• Distant view of Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Jesuits Matthew Davitt, Thomas Wheeler and Joseph Wrafter
• Jesuit on horseback, ready to climb to Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry]
• Jesuit on top of Crucachan, [Roscommon or Kerry] - Back row: Mr William Hackett, Mr Frank Browne, Mr Patrick Connolly. Front row: Mr John O'Connor, Fr Vincent Byrne, Mr John Byrne and Fr McCormack.
• Cromwell’s Fort, Inisboffin
• Connemara cattle, Galway
• Connemara school, Galway
• Connemara landscapes, Galway
• Diamond Mountain, Connemara, Galway
• Killary bay, Mayo & Galway
• Glendalough, Mayo
• Ballinakill bay and Kylemore Pass
• Salruck and Little Killary, Galway
• View from Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway
• Villa House, Rossleague, Letterfrack, Galway (1907)
• Jesuit villa group, Rossleague House, Letterfrack, Galway (1907). Back row: Bernard Page, Frank Browne, John O'Connor and James Dillon-Kelly. Front row: Frs James Whittaker, Lambert McKenna and Frederick Gill.
• Ordinations at Milltown Park (31 July 1907)
• Letterfrack, Galway
• Lough Fee, Galway
• Lough Fee and Lough Muck, Galway
• Kylemore Castle, Galway
• St Kevin’s Bed, Glendalough, Wicklow
• Fr Vincent Byrne and Mr Flynn and Barraghy next to the Old oratory on Croagh Patrick, Mayo
• Mr James McCann SJ driving a car
• Front of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Interior of Belvedere House, Belvedere College SJ, Dublin
• Belvedere College cycling club trip with Mr Frank Browne to Mellifont Abbey, Louth
• Bellerive, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Botanical gardens, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Schoolboys with Archbishop of Melbourne, Thomas Carr Taken in 1/45 of second while archbishop was speaking to boys by same BFP

Cabinet cards for Fr Robert Browne (and later as bishop of Cloyne) by Lafayette, William Lawrence, Russell & Sons and Elliott & Fry (1894-1935); framed photographs of Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne and with caption, not by Fr Browne on reverse (February 1931); photographs by Fr Frank Browne SJ of his dead uncle, Robert Browne, bishop of Cloyne, laid out in his room (1935) and newspaper notice of his burial place.

Various photographs of Frank Browne:

• as a teenager, posing with a bike [1894-1898] with caption on the reverse ‘The long expected photo from Col. J. !!!!’;
• portrait photograph of Fr Frank Browne SJ by C. and L. Walsh, 55 Lower Mount Street, Dublin [1925-1945];
• Fr Frank Browne SJ taken by Bertie, 1936;
• Fr Frank Browne SJ atop a rock in County Wicklow, with caption, not by Fr Browne on reverse ([1930-1950]);
• Frank Browne SJ by Richard Brenan SJ;
• negatives of self- portrait of Fr Browne.

Cabinet card for James Browne, the father of Fr Frank Browne SJ, Cork by Francis Guy, Cork.

Mortuary cards for Ellen D. Hegarty and James Hegarty, grandmother and grandfather of Fr Frank Browne SJ respectively.

Newgrange, Meath (neg in album).

Leaflet, ‘Berehaven…the beautiful’ with photographs by Fr Frank Browne SJ.

Leixlip fall's, with caption by Fr Frank Browne SJ on reverse.

Prospectus for St Peter's College, Wexford with photographs by Fr Frank Browne SJ on front and back.