Into the West (film)

Into the West is a 1992 Irish magical realist film about Irish Travellers written by Jim Sheridan and directed by Mike Newell.

Into the West is a film about two young boys, Tayto Conroy and Oisn Fitzgerald, whose father Papa Reilly Byrne was King of Irish Travellers until his wife, Mary, died during the birth of their second son, Oisn. The boys grandfather David Kelly is an old storytelling Traveller, who regales the children with Irish folktales and legends. When he is followed by a beautiful white horse called Tr na ng meaning Land of Eternal Youth in Irish, from the sea to Dublin, where the boys and their father have now settled down in a grim tower block in Ballymun, the boys are overwhelmed with joy and dreams of becoming cowboys. The horse is stolen from them and they begin their adventure to get their mystical horse back. They escape the poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and ride Into the West where they find that Tr na ng is not just a horse.The script was written by Jim Sheridan, who did not intend to write simply for children, although the film mainly follows two young children on the run with their beautiful, magical white horse. Other themes targeted to adults, are also present grief, the clash of cultures with differing values, and the use of the police by the rich and powerful to enforce property rights in their favour. Sheridan wrote the script five years before he directed My Left Foot. ........

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