The celebrated author Christy Brown was born in 1932, the 10th of 22 children born to a bricklayer and his wife in working-class Dublin, Ireland. Only 13 of the children survived infancy, of which 5 were older than young Christy. His mother noticed developmental differences in her son by the time he was four months old; at a year old he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and many doctors told the Browns that nothing could be done for the child, who would always be physically and mentally disabled. ...