Television: Artist largely remembered as a posthumous muse in Oscar-winning My Left Foot
’s My Left Foot. Brown was almost nine years dead by then, and in 2024 is remembered largely in the context of Day-Lewis’s performance. Actor has eclipsed artist.One, Wednesday, 9.35pm) is a commendable attempt at disentangling Brown from the Sheridan movie and restoring to him some of the prominence he had during his life.
Verner sketches out the bare-bones trajectory of Brown’s life. We begin with his impoverished upbringing in Crumlin, his supportive mother, Bridget, and his friendship with Katriona Maguire, a social worker from a privileged background. Despite their radically different backgrounds Maguire became his lodestar – she helped draw Brown out of his shell and showed him that if the world was cruel and judgemental, there was kindness in it, too.
But his perspective on himself and the world did not find favour with critics. The art writer Brian Fallon is quoted as acknowledging that Brown’s work had “a sense of personal urgency but that it lacked any painterly vocabulary”. “To be successful as an artist you need to come to peace with your personhood,” he said.
His poetry has been largely forgotten too – writing for RTÉ, Verner says, “Christy not seen as a highly regarded poet within the clique of literary critique.”
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