A Vanishing World: The Irish Country House Photographs of Father Browne

Jesuit priest and amateur photographer, Fr Francis Browne is renowned for his images of the Titanic. However, much less well—known are the pictures that Fr Browne took of Irish country houses over a decade from 1946 onward.

At the time, these buildings were still private properties, mostly in the hands of their original families and not open to the public. Somehow, this gentle—mannered priest gained the confidence of owners and thus unique access to their homes, free to roam with his camera ...