There have been accusations by the family that the death was precipitated by neglect. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. His autobiography, My Left Foot , was later expanded into the novel Down All the Days and became an international bestseller, with translations into 14 languages.
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Facts about Christy Brown. Self Portrait. Previous Next. Biography from the Archives of askART. Like Joyce, Brown employed the stream-of-consciousness technique and captured the Dublin culture in his use of humour, language and unique character description.
Down All the Days is a novel of Ireland and its society, focusing more on that than Brown's illness. My Left Foot , a film version of his autobiography, was directed by Jim Sheridan in with a screenplay by Shane Connaughton.
The film was nominated for five Oscars in total, including Best Picture. He finally did so in with help from Moore, who introduced and administered a strict working regimen, mostly by denying him alcohol on which Brown was dependent until a day's work was completed.
Upon his return to Ireland, he was able to use proceeds from the sales of his books to design and move into a specially constructed home outside Dublin with his sister's family. They moved to Kerry and then to Somerset. He continued to paint, write novels, poetry and plays. His novel, A Shadow on Summer , was based on his relationship with Moore, who he still considered a friend. Some days later he tried to paint with them for the very first time.
Slowly he began to lose his depression and at this time he painted his best pictures. He had a feeling of pure joy when he was painting, a feeling he had never experienced before. But one day Christy's mother became ill and was taken to hospital, where a few weeks later she gave birth to her last child.
Christy's mother remained ill and rapidly became worse. During this time Christy did not even paint, he had no interest in anything because he feared that his mother could die. One evening a young girl, Katrina Delahunt, came to Christy. She worked in the hospital and wanted Christy to write a few words to his mother that she could be sure that everything was okay at home.
Next time she came she brought some paints, brushes and drawing books along and the good news that Christy's mother would be home soon. Katrina Delahunt came into Christy's life when he needed her most and she was his first dream - girl. In the course of time Christy began to understand more about himself because he had begun to feel, to think and therefor to know a little more.
Painting became his great love not only because it made him so happy but as well because he pleased others with them - for example Katrina. Then a few weeks before Christmas Christy read in a newspaper that there was a painting competition and Christy took part in it because Katrina wanted him to. Next Sunday morning Christy's father went into his room and showed him the newspaper - Christy was the winner of the competition. Christy lost his heart again: he fell in love with a girl called Jenny who was at his age.
She lived a few doors away from his home. Jenny visited Christy for several times and they became really very good friends. One day she even gave him a kiss on his forehead - but from this day on she did not visit him anymore. Christy very often dreamed of Jenny kissing him and felt very melancholy and alone. On his fourteenth birthday he got a card from Jenny but she never came to see him.
To hide his heart trouble he painted every day crazy little pictures that had no theme or pattern. Then one day, Christy sat in the back yard and suddenly Jenny appeared. She looked across at him - but it was a look of pity. From his 15th birthday on Christy knew that he was not a child anymore but he neither was a grown-up. Christy could not run away from himself anymore because therefor he knew he was too old.
Everyone around him had something necessary to do, they had interests and activities - but Christy only had his left foot. Whenever Christy looked around him he saw that everything and everyone was perfect - except him. He asked himself for hundred times why he was different, why he nevertheless showed the same feelings as the others and Christy even wanted to commit suicide. The people always said that he was a marvellous boy because he was able to write with his left foot and told him that he was lucky.
But Christy did not want to be anything special he just wanted to be ordinary - he wanted to be like all the other boys at his age. One day Katrina, who now was married, came and asked Christy if he did not want to go to Lourdes - a famous place in France where many pilgrims went. It was said that many ill people got healthy there.
For the very first time Christy went away from home for 1 week and there for the very first time he realized how many other people had to suffer even more than he had to. They slept in a convent and on the next day they were brought to the famous Healing Baths. After having been in this water Christy felt as if he was reborn. At home everything was different from Lourdes again because at home everyone except him was normal.
For Christy it was sure that, no matter how he might appear on the surface, no matter how he might pretend to others or how much he lied to himself, he would never be happy or at peace with himself as long as he was crippled like this.
Christy was at home from Lourdes for about one week when Dr. Collis, he visited Christy already when he was a little boy, visited him and told him that he would get a special treatment.
This was called physiotherapy and Christy had to do special exercises. Suddenly Christy saw that there was some sense in his life. Maybe he would be able to lead quite a normal life, be independent, be able to go out - to be free. Each week Dr. Warnants came to Christy and he had to show the doctor different exercises.
The only room where they were able to do this physiotherapy was the kitchen but it was too small either. Therefor Christy's mother had the idea of building a house for Christy in the back garden.
It took Christy's father and brothers quite a long time till the house was ready and Christy was able to live there. Now Christy had really broken away from the family because he always was in his house. Then one day Dr. Brown's autobiography, My Left Foot , was expanded into the novel Down All The Days in , and went on to become an international best-seller.
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