O'Donoghue's Opera (1998)
Comedy
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.
Cast
- Ronnie Drew as Larry
- Séamus Ennis
- Johnny Moynihan
- Ciarán Bourke
- Luke Kelly
- Barney McKenna
- Bobby Lynch
- John Sheahan
- Marie Grehan
- Francie Grehan