O'Donoghue's Opera

Overview

In this mock opera infused with gallows humour, Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers, The Dubliners, re-enact the execution ballad ‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’. Larry finds himself caught in a hangman’s noose as just reward for being ‘the best burglar in all Ireland’. Made in 1965, the film remained uncompleted and unseen until its restoration in 1998.

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Cast

Ronnie Drew

Larry

Séamus Ennis

Johnny Moynihan

Ciarán Bourke

Luke Kelly

Barney McKenna

Bobby Lynch

John Sheahan

Marie Grehan

Francie Grehan