an international best-seller, translated into 14 languages. The Irish Times reviewer Bernard Share claimed the work was "the most important Irish novel since Ulysses." Like James Joyce, Brown employed the stream-of-consciousness technique and sought to document Dublin's culture through the use of humour, accurate dialects and intricate character description. Down All the Days was followed by a series of other novels, including A Shadow on Summer (1972), Wild Grow the Lilies (1976) and A Promising Career (published posthumously in 1982). 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. Cultural references A film adaptation of My Left Foot directed by Jim Sheridan was produced in 1989 from a screenplay by Shane Connaughton. Daniel Day-Lewis starred as Brown and Brenda Fricker as his mother; both won Academy Awards for their performances. The film also received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The Anglo-Irish rock band The Pogues paid tribute to Christy Brown with a song titled "Down All the Days." It is the seventh track on their 1989 recording Peace and Love. Similarly, U2 released a song titled "Down All the Days" with the 20th anniversary edition of Achtung Baby. The Men They Couldn't Hang also wrote a song "Down All the Days" which appears on the Silver Town album also released in 1989. Works 1954 My Left Foot 1970 Down All the Days 1971 Come Softly to My Wake (Poems of Christy Brown) 1973 Background Music: Poems of Christy Brown 1974 A Shadow on Summer 1976 Wild Grow the Lilies 1978 Of Snails And Skylarks 1982 A Promising Career (posthumous publication of his final work) 1991 The Collected Poems of Christy Brown (posthumous compilation of his three books of poetry) References Bibliography External links Christy Brown Biography 1932 births 1981 deaths Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery Deaths from choking 20th-century Irish painters Irish male painters People from Crumlin, Dublin People from County Kerry People with cerebral palsy 20th-century Irish poets Irish male poets 20th-century Irish novelists Irish male novelists Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom 20th-century male writers Writers with disabilities 20th-century Irish male writers Artists with disabilities Irish autobiographers Male biographers 20th-century Irish male artists