World famous director Steven Speilberg, actor Daniel Day Lewis and actress Sally Field were in town for the European premiere of Lincoln.
The film that is due for public release on Friday, January 25th next is partially based on Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Lincoln depicts the last four months of Abraham’s life with specific focus on the President's efforts in January 1865 to have the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
The Savoy played host as European premiere of the film before a select few made their way to the Burlington Hotel this evening where props from the film are to be auctioned off in aid of the Wicklow Hospice Foundation.
Evanne Cahill, the woman who made the charity benefit possible sent a birthday card to fellow Wicklow native Day Lewis asking him to become an advocate for the charity.
Three months would pass before she received a personal phone call from the My Left Foot actor personally apologising for not responding to her correspondence sooner.
Special guests at the event included President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, Olympic medallist Katie Taylor, U2’s Bono and the Edge, singer Chris De Burgh and his daughter and former Miss World Rosanna Davidson.
Henry McKean and Padraig Prendergast were at the premiere and caught up with Speilberg, Day Lewis and Field about their thoughts on the movie and the hospice.
