Maguire' for the rest of my life, isn't it? You'd feel strange calling me 'Mr. I flew to London with my mother yesterday.') ('.Dear Katriona, I have finally concluded that, after all these years of friendship and affinity, I'm entitled to call you that! I mean, it is rather absurd for me to address you as 'Mrs.

1946-76, plus a watercolour inscribed to her in 1945, ('.I am writing this letter with a mixed feeling of regret and determination: regret as this is the last letter I shall write for the next five years determined to write the next letter with my hands. Over 40 letters by Christy Brown to Katriona Delahunt (later Maguire), the social worker who was the first outside the family to foster Christy Brown's talents as an artist and writer by regular visits and bringing him painting and writing materials, five written with his left foot, with 33 typed with his left foot c. (ii) Letters to and from Katriona Maguire typescript drafts of sections of several of his later novels 27 typescript poems sent to Katriona Maguire (and dated by her) other poems sent to his brother Sean cyclostyled text of the BBC adaption of My Left Foot, broadcast in 1954 (but not longer extant, with neither recording nor text held by the BBC today) and other material typescript of an unpublished play, Mrs Brennan some 100 pages of partial drafts and segments of mostly unidentified prose works, typescripts with revisions and deletions, including a draft of the second part of A Shadow On Summer (14 pages), and about 80 pages of mainly discarded or rewritten pages from prose works, some with notes by Christy Brown or his editor David Farrer, with deletions etc.

The personal and family archive of the Irish author and painter Christy Brown, comprising papers, paintings, books and personal effects, including: (i) Pediscripts, Manuscripts and TypescriptsĮarly copybook containing 'Poems of a Primitive', unpublished poems dictated to his brothers, which pre-date My Left Foot a group of nearly thirty poems in manuscript and typescript two unpublished typescript short stories the publication typescript of his last novel, A Promising Career, with covering letters by his publishers, etc.

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