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Croagh Patrick
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Not sure if this is the right place for this…
Took this a couple of years ago with a point and shoot I bought on holidays for €100 or something like that
awful thing it was, took around 20 shots and the batteries would die.
Anyway, this was a student priest. I met a group of them at the top, they had a mass inside the chapel at
the top and invited anyone who wanted to go. Not a big church goer, but there was something special about
that day. This guy missed it because he decided to walk up barefoot.
Sinead.
I really like it. Like something you’d see in one of Fr. Brownes books! (I mean that in the nicest possible way!)
Well worth a look:
Quotes from the above web site:
“Born in Cork in 1880, Frank Browne came from a prominent family in that city. His grandfather, James Hegarty, was Lord Mayor, and his uncle, Robert Browne, was Bishop of Cloyne for 41 years. His schooldays were spent at Christian Brothers’ College, Cork, the Bower Convent, Athlone, Belvedere College , Dublin, and Castleknock College, Dublin. When Frank left school in 1897 he set out on a Grand Tour of Europe. The resultant images were the first shots in a salvo of photographic activity that would still be reverberating 100 years later.On his return from the continent Frank joined the Jesuits. After two years in the novitiate, he attended the Royal University in Dublin where he spent three years in the same class as his fellow Belvederian, James Joyce.
From 1903 to 1906 he studied philosophy in Chieri, near Turin, and then returned to the desks of Belvedere College where he taught for five years. During the first of these (1906), he founded The Belvederian (the college annual) and the Camera Club; both still exist.
From 1911 to 1916, Frank Browne studied Theology at Milltown Park in Dublin. It was during this period that his Uncle Robert (the Bishop of Cloyne) sent him an unusual present: a ticket for the first legs of the maiden voyage of the Titanic, sailing from Southampton to Cherbourg and then on to Queenstown (Cobh), Co Cork, Ireland.
While on board, an American millionaire offered to pay his way for the rest of the voyage to New York. On being apprised of this suggestion, Frank’s Jesuit Superior cabled Queenstown saying, succinctly,“GET OFF THAT SHIP—PROVINCIAL”.
After the tragedy, Frank Browne’s photographs appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world. He had taken the last picture of Captain Smith and the only one ever taken in the Marconi room. His series starts at Waterloo Station with the “Titanic Special” and documents the activities of passengers and crew aboard this unique ship, concluding with the anchor being raised from the water for the last time.
In 1915 Frank was ordained a priest by his Uncle Robert. The following year he volunteered for service as a chaplain to the Irish Guards. He was with them at the Western Front and in Germany well into 1919. He served at the battle of the Somme, at Locre, Wytschaete and Massine Ridge, Paschendaele, Ypres, Amiens and Arras. He was wounded five times and was awarded the Military Cross and Bar.
After the war Father Browne returned to Belvedere and in 1922 was appointed superior of Gardiner Street Church. Due to ill health he travelled to Australia in 1924. On the journey out he photographed life aboard ship and at Cape Town. He travelled extensively throughout Australia, photographing sugar cane processing, members of Irish religious orders, migrant workers, new immigrants in canvas villages, and sheep farming in a series covering a cross section of Australian Life.On his return journey he visited Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Egypt, and Gibraltar, making memorable images as he went. During the 1930s he visited England several times. The majority of the images from this time are from East Anglia and London.
When he returned to Ireland he was stationed as a member of the missions and retreats staff of the Irish order. His duties took him to all parts of Ireland, working mostly in the evening, which enabled him to indulge his photographic activities during the day. Apart from trips to England on assignments for the British Museum and the Church of England, the remainder of his work was undertaken in Ireland. He died in July of 1960 and is buried in the Jesuit plot in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Father Browne’s great collection of negatives lay forgotten for 25 years after his death. It was by chance in 1986 that Father E. E. O’Donnell SJ discovered this amazing collection in a large metal trunk. Father O’Donnell brought the negatives to the attention of the features editor of the London Sunday Times who dubbed them “the photographic equivalent to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls”.
In all he made some 41,632 negatives. His interests were broad, resulting in his capturing a unique view into the industrial, agricultural, religious, commercial and social elements of an Ireland developing its own post independence identity.”Crazygame, thanks, I’ll take it as a compliment!!
Ross thank you very much for that link. First time I have
heard that story, his pictures are amazing. Very interesting website.Sinead.
Funny enough Sinead, on the morning we went up the Mournes with Mark and Ken etc, I had breakfast at their B&B, and I was telling Mark and Ken about Father Browne, and promised to follow it up with a link but forgot all about it until I saw this thread. It is an amazing story – from surviving the Titanic voyage by pure chance (ie “GET OFF THAT SHIP”) to being decorated in WW1, travelling the World with his camera etc.
Just read that wee bit you added on there, very similar to the story of HCB scrapbook
which was published this year.
Some similarities in photographic style too.Again, thank you for that link.
S.
I remember climbing the Reek years ago, in slip-on sandals. :oops: I had to resort to bare feet at about this point,~I think. :oops:
Taking the distant islands as a guide, it it possible that the horizon is off?
Excellent photograph Sinead, great composition. Bet
this prints beautifully…Rob.
As already mentioned Sinead..fantastic composition.
Just goes to show…it’s the photographer not the camera that makes an image :D
Thanks again everyone for comments on this one….
j, think I got lucky with the composition, no viewfinder on the thing
and the screen was about the size of a stamp!!Pixelle, did you go out intentionally to walk to the top? Your poor
feet must have been in bits!!.. Yes horizon is most likely off.. no
viewfinder, stamp sized screen etc…Rob, thanks, I did print this after I took it and posted it to Maynooth
Collage, don’t know if he ever got it though.. Think I may have just desaturated
though , so will try a another to see how it looks.Robbie, cheers, sometimes I think I took better pictures with that
wee camera than I take with the D80 now!For anyone who has never been I would highly suggest you go
it’s one of my favorite places on this earth!And if you do go.. I would also suggest a pint of stout in Matt Malloy’s
pub in Westport.. Some amazing photographs on the walls in that pub.Sinead.
Pixelle, did you go out intentionally to walk to the top? Your poor
feet must have been in bits!!..Yes, we did, it was very misty and we thought there would be a nice path all the way up!
We did come down the other [smoother] side, though. :)
Excellent Sinead !.
I walked up this once too, many years ago, not easy. It was at night too, don’t ask… lol
Well Pixelle, I’m glad to see you have since gotten yourself a decent
pair of boots for such occasions :wink:Mark, they used to have the annual pilgrimage at night, is that what
you were doing?S.
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