Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 700
Title
1980 Portrait of Christy Brown
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Photographic paper, ink. 59 x 42 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
30/08/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A black and white photographic portrait of Christy Brown.
Christy Brown was an author, painter and poet who suffered from cerebral palsy. He is most famous for his autobiograpy My Left Foot – his left leg was the only limb over which he had complete control, so he taught himself to write and paint with his left foot. Noel Pearson’s 1989 film of the same name, directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day Lewis as Brown, is one of the most celebrated Irish movies of the last 30 years.