Into The West!

Nala

Hi everyone,
Does anyone remember the film, Into The West? (Gabriel Byrne, early Nineties).
It's about a traveller family and their dead mother, who has been reincarnated as a magical white horse named Tír na nOg. I bought it on DVD at the weekend and it's brought back a lot of memories of when I watched it as a child.

Nala

Eoghan-psych

Nala wrote:

Hi everyone,
Does anyone remember the film, Into The West? (Gabriel Byrne, early Nineties).
It's about a traveller family and their dead mother, who has been reincarnated as a magical white horse named Tír na nOg. I bought it on DVD at the weekend and it's brought back a lot of memories of when I watched it as a child.

Nala

They're taykin me horse, they're taykin me horse!

She's terrible partial t'the periwinkle blu... oh wait, wrong Pikey. :-)

Chalk

do tha braythin tayho
do tha braythin

She-Ra

oh...dan...ee... boooiiii

20 Times 20 Times

get on the horse tayto you cream cracker

Larianne

Taaayto, Taaayto...

I went to see that in the cinema with my family. I remember it coz we were meant to go see a local panto but the power went in the hall and it would take an hour before they got a generator so the whole family headed to the cinema and we saw that!

Tobias Greeshman

my resounding memory of that film was when they tried to cook the can of beans over the open fire! Twas funny!

Tha Gopher

Eoghan-psych wrote:

She's terrible partial t'the periwinkle blu... oh wait, wrong Pikey. :-)

LMAO Ah sure wat the **** woul i wan wit a caravan wit no wheels?


They showed Into the West last Christmas, aye I liked it, hadnt seen it in years. Love films that show Dublin back in the early 90s, like this, The Van etc etc.

Its funny to remember there were horses runnin all over Dublin years ago, now the pikys are the only people in Dublin with them
National Geographic Channel did a docu years ago about the lads in the flats who had horses, around the same time the corpo started seizing them

Dizzyblabla

I went horse riding for a few weeks in Dublin years back and I was riding Tayto!! (White with brown patches)
I thought I was the business! - on a famous horse!! horray!

aidan_dunne

Ummm, you were riding Tayto? Tayto was one of the young travellers in the film, not the name of the horse. The horse was named Tir na N'Og.

Remember seeing that film loads of times years ago. For some reason my father really liked it. Happened to stumble across it flicking through the channels when they showed it last Christmas. I, too, hadn't seen it for years so imagine my surprise when I saw 'Bishop Brennan' in it playing a guard. Forgot all about him in it. Had to laugh when I saw that.

I'll say one thing. Ellen Barkin was a pretty good looking tinker!

Rhyme

Such a classic movie, havent watched it in years... i loved when they were in watching the film in the cinema with the horse.

"Tayto, Tayto... me legs are like Jellay"

Larianne

The granddad in it is Charlie Bucket's grandfather in the new Willy Wonka movie. Thought that dude was dead! lol

bonzai bob

Waiting for a lift with the horse,

Passer by: You're not bringing that into the lift are ya?
Kid: Sure i hafta, the stairs'd kill him!!

LMAO!! Classic

OLDYELLAR

me names o reilly , mr o reilly

Thumper Long

OLDYELLAR wrote:

me names o reilly , mr o reilly

was it not murphy

Q: Whats your Name?
A: Murphy
Q: Whats your first name?
A: Mr Murphy

OLDYELLAR

Thumper Long wrote:

was it not murphy

Q: Whats your Name?
A: Murphy
Q: Whats your first name?
A: Mr Murphy

oh man i think it was , Me and the bf were trying to think of it last night

Larianne

Was reading the independant there yesterday about the demolitian of one of the Balymum flats and there was an ad beside it saying there's a free dvd of Into The West next saturday/sunday!

Yay!

OLDYELLAR

Larianne wrote:

Was reading the independant there yesterday about the demolitian of one of the Balymum flats and there was an ad beside it saying there's a free dvd of Into The West next saturday/sunday!

Yay!

yays!!

Nala

****'S SAKE!!!! I spent €18 on it and it's gonna be free with the paper??????????

Larianne

Nala wrote:

****'S SAKE!!!! I spent €18 on it and it's gonna be free with the paper??????????

Yes, free this weekend! But you get the nice box and probably a free poster???

carl johnson

I'll be pickin that up. I love when they go to Back To The Future Part III with Tír Ná Nóg in the cinema. lol

OLDYELLAR

carl johnson wrote:

I'll be pickin that up. I love when they go to Back To The Future Part III with Tír Ná Nóg in the cinema. lol

oh man that was so funny , I always wanted to get locked in the cinema eating all the sweets and the big screen , that was deadly!!

Mossy Monk

Nala wrote:

****'S SAKE!!!! I spent €18 on it and it's gonna be free with the paper??????????

hate it when things like that happen

Nala

I wouldn't mind, only I hardly ever buy DVDs...Grrrrr!!!!!! :mad:

OLDYELLAR

that sucks alright , suppose ya couldnt take it back , it`d look pretty obvious .

Cork

Was the young lad in that film called "Tayto"?

Larianne

I thought it was but on the ad yer man says 'Teeto'. I'm sure its more Tayto, he has to be named after the crisps!!

OLDYELLAR

yea i think so

aidan_dunne

According to IMDB, it's actually Tito. But I think we'll always refer to the little guy as Tayto. I know I will, anyway!

Roar

yeah its tito on the back of the dvd too.. got a bit of a shock

OLDYELLAR

oh i forgot today was free dvd day , must head into town for that.

Larianne

OLDYELLAR wrote:

oh i forgot today was free dvd day , must head into town for that.

YEah watched half of it! (turned it off for Big Brother, sad I know!)

"Oh, he's doing the funny breathing again"

There's a rather slim-lined Brendan Gleeson in it as a mean Garda. Think that dude is in every Irish film that gets made!! lol

OLDYELLAR

jesu yea i forgot he was in it , its years since i saw it.

Larianne

Yeah sure I wouldve been too young to know who the guy was. Wacthing it with my brother and I mentioned that the Grandda (yer man from Glenroe) is Charlie Bucket's granddad in the new Wily Wonka movie and me brother goes "what?! Is he not dead yet?" lmao Thrue though, that dude is old!!

Capt'n Midnight

DVD is free with the Sunday Indo I think.

Larianne

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

DVD is free with the Sunday Indo I think.

Yep!

Nala

The older lad's name is Tito.

The little lad's name is Ossie!

Roar

watched it last night, good god itss the worst film ever.. not at all like i remembered it.

why the big mad police man hunt just for the sake of a horse? like helicopters and riot gear and everything? it didnt make sense..

but then again i dont think it was supposed to.


TAAAYYYYTO TAAYYYYYYTO! DONT LAYYYVE ME!

i nearly p!ssed meself when i saw that

Nala

Well a champion showjumper can be worth millions so when you think of it like that...Waterford Crystal was worth a fortune back in the day.

Larianne

Larianne wrote:

There's a rather slim-lined Brendan Gleeson in it as a mean Garda. Think that dude is in every Irish film that gets made!! lol

Ah here, if Colm Meaney isn't in it, it isn't an Irish film

Healio

Myth wrote:

Ah here, if Colm Meaney isn't in it, it isn't an Irish film

Colm meaney is in it.