Determined to see him succeed, his mother tirelessly taught her son two invaluable lessons: how to grasp chalk and brushes with his foot to write letters and paint, and how to use body language and grunts to communicate. Mute until the age of 17, Brown had no formal schooling and instead garnered bits of knowledge from his many siblings. She dexterously recounts the genesis of his illness-double athetoid cerebral palsy caused by partial suffocation at birth, which left his entire body paralyzed save for his left foot. Here she dives into his family history, dreams, successes and tribulations. Amazed that there had been no scholarly investigation of this extraordinarily accomplished work, she chose Brown as the subject of her masters thesis and then decided to write his biography. She began reading his poetry, memoirs and sole novel. The film was 13 years old and its subject long dead in 2003, when a chatty Dublin taxi driver first tipped off University College undergrad Hambleton about Christy Brown (1932–81). Biography of the disabled Irish artist and author whose life story inspired the Oscar-winning film My Left Foot.
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