Zone d'identification
Cote
IE LMOD 700
Titre
1980 Portrait of Christy Brown
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
Photographic paper, ink. 59 x 42 cm
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Histoire archivistique
30/08/2011
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.