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.

• Kevin SheldonDirector

• Ronnie DrewLarry
• Séamus EnnisCast
• Johnny MoynihanCast
• Ciarán BourkeCast
• Luke KellyCast
• Barney McKennaCast
• Bobby LynchCast
• John SheahanCast
• Marie GrehanCast
• Francie GrehanCast
• Helen "Bernie" GrehanCast