Into the West (film)

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Into the West

Directed by	Mike Newell
Written by	Jim Sheridan
Starring	Gabriel Byrne Ellen Barkin Ruaidhri Conroy Ciaran Fitzgerald David Kelly
Music by	Patrick Doyle
Editing by	Peter Boyle
Distributed by	Miramax Family Films
Release date(s)	1992
Running time	97 min.
Language	English
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Into the West is a 1992 film about Irish Travellers, directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan. Actors in the film include Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidhri Conroy, Ciaran Fitzgerald, David Kelly, Colm Meaney, Johnny Murphy, John Kavanagh and Brendan Gleeson.

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Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tito (Conroy) and Ossie (Fitzgerald), whose father (Byrne) was 'King of the travellers' until his wife, Mary, dies during the birth of their second son, Ossie. The boys' Grandfather (David Kelly) is an old story telling traveller, who regales the children with Irish folk-tales and Legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tír na nÓg (meaning "Land of Eternal Youth" in Irish Gaelic), from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their Father now live, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and the dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the degradation of the Ballymun Council Flats, Into The West where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse.