Christy Brown

Artiion picturest, author. His life was the subject of the 1989 motion picture "My Left Foot", starring actor Daniel Day-Lewis. Born in Crumlin, Ireland, he was the tenth of twenty-two children (onl thirteen would survive) of a poor Catholic family whose father was a bricklayer and mother was a schoolteacher. Born with a severe form of cereblal palsy, he was incapable of normal movement or speech, and remained virtually paralysed all his life. Doctors considered him mentally retarded as well...