The films stored include The Butcher Boy, with Eamonn Owens and Alan Boyle

The original film reels for My Left Foot, Michael Collins, The Commitments and The Butcher Boy are among 30,000 Irish productions moved to a storage facility at the National University of Ireland Maynooth for preservation.

The state-of-the-art facility on campus at the university was built to store the reels, which had been housed at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, Dublin.

In November 2011, the IFI launched the Irish film archive preservation fund after its archive building reached capacity. The partnership with Maynooth University was made with support from the government, the Irish Film Board and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.

Films from directors including John Huston, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, Lenny Abrahamson, Pat Murphy, Aisling Walsh and George Morrison will be among those