Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
At the age of five, he snatches a piece of yellow chalk from his sister with his left foot. He marks the letter "A" on the floor with his foot and the help of his mother. He had wanted to make what he described as, "a wild sort of scribble with it on the slate". [This quote needs a citation] It is from this incident that the book received its ...
He also published three poetry collections: Come Softly to My Wake, Background Music and Of Snails and Skylarks. All the poems are included in The Collected Poems of Christy Brown. A film adaptation of My Left Foot directed by Jim Sheridan was produced in 1989 from a screenplay by Shane Connaughton.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir by Christy Brown.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Shane Connaughton (born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt, County Cavan [1] [2]) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for My Left Foot. [3]
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright and filmmaker. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed three critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot (1989), The Field (1990), and In the Name of the Father (1993), and later directed the films The Boxer (1997), In America (2003), and Brothers (2009).
"My Other Left Foot" , a season 1 episode of NCIS: Washington TV series spin-off of JAG (TV series) "My Left and Right Foot", a season 8 episode of Full House; All pages with titles containing left foot
My Left Foot (book) is within the scope of WikiProject Disability. For more information, visit the project page , where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion . Disability Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability Template:WikiProject Disability Disability