My Left Foot
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
1 August 1958, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
17 February 1945, Dublin, Ireland
1933 in Sligo, Ireland

