This collection by renowned photographer, Francis Browne SJ, portays both the photographer's vision and the city's energy as it changes during the first half of the twentieth century. Father Browne focuses on the people of Dublin, at work, at play and watching the world go by. This is a city of children, window shoppers, churchgoers, canals, bridges, trams and trains. Grand houses and tenements, middle classes and poor, industry and hospitals, all catch the photographer's eye. Father Browne's Dublin is a treasure of images, a collection of outstanding photographs, full of wisdom, humour, nostalgia, artistry, information and record. Both Dubliners and the many, many visitors to Ireland's capital city will find here a collection that brings the Dublin of the last century back to life.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Carmel Hannon of Sutton (1919)
  • ‘The Day Before Yesterday’: Father Browne’s Dublin: An Exhibition at the Guinness Hopstore, 1993
• The 1920s
  • Dublin in the 1920s
  • Children of Finglas (1925)
  • ‘Where my Caravan hath Rested’: Saggart, County Dublin (1925)
  • Killiney Strand (1925)
  • Sand-dredgers at Lucan (1925)
  • Census Day, Tallaght (1926)
  • The Caretaker on the South Bull Wall (1926)
  • Mr Tim Healy with Fr J O’Reilly at Garden Party in Raheny (1926)
  • Sunday Morning in the Snow, Gardiner Street (1927)
  • Dispatching the Mail for the Kish Lightship (1927)
  • Window-shopping on Grafton Street (1927)
  • Watching the Trains at Kingsbridge (1928)
  • Through the Windscreen (1928)
  • Simple Pleasures (1929)
  • Commercial Buildings, Dame Street (1929)
• The 1930s
  • Dublin in the 1930s
  • Young Rugby Fans at Donnybrook (1930)
  • Inspecting the Cameras at Kodak & Co, Grafton Street (1930)
  • Fallen Horse, O’Connell Bridge (1930)
  • Taxi Rank, from the Roof of the Shelbourne Hotel (1930)
  • Newsboy at Harcourt Street Station (1930)
  • Shadow of Parliament (1931)
  • The Empty Pond, St Stephen’s Green (1931)
  • Yo-yo Girls, Cavendish Row (1931)
  • Modern Art, Talbot Street (1931)
  • Affixing a Plaque, O’Connell Street (1931)
  • Children’s Mass in the Phoenix Park during the Eucharistic Congress (1932)
  • O’Connell Street, empty, during the Eucharistic Congress (1932)
  • Congress Crowds, Lower Gardiner Street (1932)
  • Distinguished Guests at the Eucharistic Congress (1932)
  • O’Connell Street, full, during the Eucharistic Congress (1932)
  • The Face at the Window, Harcourt Street Station (1933)
  • The Custom House and Eden Quay, from the top deck of a tram on O’Connell Bridge (1933)
  • Burst Water Main, Summerhill (1933)
  • The Gasometer on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay (1933)
  • Reflections on Royal Canal (1933)
  • A Sleety Day on the Halfpenny Bridge (1933)
  • Book-stall at Dun Laoghaire (1934)
  • Emergency Services in O’Connell Street (1935)
  • Barge on the Grand Canal at Leeson Street Bridge (1935)
  • A Helping Hand, Booterstown (1936)
  • The ‘Outside Beds’ at Cappagh Hospital (1936)
  • First Communion at Cappagh Hospital (1937)
  • On the Mail Boat (1937)
  • Passengers on the Mail Boat (1937)
  • Greaser at Work, Inchicore (1938)
  • Watching the Gardiner Street Fire (1938)
  • Gardiner Street Fire (1938)
  • Make-up for the Opera (1938)
  • Winners at the Feis (1938)
  • Sentry at Dublin Castle (1938)
  • The Crampton Memorial, Pearse Street (1938)
  • Off-loading at Dublin Port (1938)
  • The Maids at Linden (1939)
  • Farewell to Dublin (1939)
  • Evening Shadows, St Stephen’s Green (1939)
  • From Bombs to Bonnives (1939)
  • St Audeon’s Church, Cornmarket (1939)
  • Findlater’s Church, Parnell Square (1939)
  • Cricket at Linden (1939)
  • The Ice-cream Man, Stillorgan (1939)
  • Accordionist
• The 1940s
  • Dublin in the 1940s
  • Children’s Tea-party, Temple Street (1940)
  • Christ Church Cathedral from Cork Hill (1940)
  • Gas-driven Lorry (1941)
  • A Portrait of Malachi Horan, Ballinascorney (1942)
  • O’Connell Street (1942)
  • Pedestrians on O’Connell Street, from Elvery’s (1942)
  • Suspended Scaffolding, Kildare Street (1942)
  • Breadman, Parnell Street (1942)
  • Central Catholic Library (1943)
  • Playing at the Fountain, St Stephen’s Green (1943)
  • Mrs Stevens, with Marjorie and daughter, Lucan (1943)
  • The Last of the Tenements, Sean McDermott Street (1944)
  • St Stephen’s Green in Fog (1944)
  • The Flower Seller at Gardiner Street Church (1945)
  • Cleanliness Next to Godliness (1945)
  • Signalman A Cooney at Balbriggan Railway Station (1946)
  • Georgian Mews, Leeson Court (1946)
  • Loading the Country Bus, Aston’s Quay (1947)
  • Howth Castle & Irelands Eye (1947)
  • The Lutyens Loggia at Howth Castle (1947)
  • Dolphin’s Barn during the Black Winter (1947)
  • Larkhill Church, Whitehall (1948)
  • Sand Art, Balbriggan (1948)
  • Twin Tubs in the Wash-room at Manresa House (1948)
  • Bus Queue, Upper O’Connell Street (1948)
  • Áras an Uachtaráin (1948)
  • Corpus Christi Church (1948)
  • Crooksling Sanatorium (1949)
  • Miltown Park after the Fire (1949)
• Dublin in the 1950s
  • Dublin in the 1950s
  • Bailey Lighthouse, Howth (1950)