Born in Cork in 1880 Francis Mary Hegarty Browne, was a grandson of the lord mayor. In 1897 he toured Europe with his camera and on his return to Ireland, joined the Jesuit order. After his two years of noviceship, he attended the Royal University in Dublin where he was a classmate of James Joyce. He is mentioned several times in Finnegans Wake. He served as chaplain to the Irish Guards in World War I, after which he suffered poor health. He won numerous photographic awards and died in 1960.
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