The Savoy Cinema Portarlington

I blipped this cinema before, but I have since found out that it is famous for a scene in one of Irelands best made but least known films. The cinema is now closed, but the scene was from a film called Into the West (1992) written by Jim Sheridan.  The film starred Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Colm Meaney of many films and Star Trek fame. I am not a Trekki (is that the way you spell it) so I dont know the name of the character

In the film the boys were escaping from the Gardai (Irish Police) when they hid out in this cinema.  When I was taking the photograph, the son of the now owner of the premises told me that while all the seats have been taken out the projectors are still in place.  He said that they actually brought the horse up the stairs and into the projector room.  You can see the cinema at 1.41 in the Trailer.

I copied and paste the info below from Wiki because I am too lazy to type it.

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), 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 poverty of a north Dublin council estate, and "Into the West" where they find that Tír na nÓg is not just any horse