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.
Cast
Ronnie Drew
as Larry
Séamus Ennis
as
Johnny Moynihan
as
Ciarán Bourke
as
Luke Kelly
as
Barney McKenna
as
Bobby Lynch
as
John Sheahan
as
Marie Grehan
as
Francie Grehan
as
