Christy Brown archive comes home to Dublin

The last remaining archive of work by Christy Brown has been bought in London by the National Library of Ireland and the Little Museum of Dublin for €45,000.

The archive includes unseen sketches, paintings and unpublished poems by the writer and painter whose life inspired the Oscar-winning film My Left Foot starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Among the large cache of private letters are a number from his life-long correspondence with Katriona Maguire who starting visiting Christy in his adolescence and who nurtured his love of writing and painting.

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