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O'Donoghue's Opera

03/07/1998

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0hr 37min

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Comedy

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ronnie Drew
  • Séamus Ennis
  • Johnny Moynihan
  • Ciarán Bourke
  • Luke Kelly

    Directors

  • Kevin Sheldon
  • Sé Merry Doyle

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • Ireland

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Ronnie Drew

Larry

Séamus Ennis

Johnny Moynihan

Ciarán Bourke

Luke Kelly

Barney McKenna

Bobby Lynch

John Sheahan

Marie Grehan

Francie Grehan