O'Donoghue's Opera

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.

• Release date
• March 7, 1998
• Runtime
• 37 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Kevin Sheldon

Cast

Ronnie Drew Larry

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Séamus Ennis

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Johnny Moynihan Ciarán Bourke Luke Kelly Barney McKenna Bobby Lynch John Sheahan