Film
O'Donoghue's Opera 1998
37 min Comedy
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 as Larry
- Séamus Ennis
- Johnny Moynihan
- Ciarán Bourke
- Luke Kelly
- Barney McKenna
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