Christy Brown is born with cerebral palsy to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs. Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous artist who uses his dexterous left foot to write and paint.
1933 in Sligo, Ireland
14 July 1976, Dublin, Ireland
1 August 1958, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
20 January 1934, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland

