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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.
Directed byKevin Sheldon
Cast

Ronnie Drew
Larry
Séamus Ennis
Johnny Moynihan

Ciarán Bourke

Luke Kelly

Barney McKenna

Bobby Lynch

John Sheahan
Marie Grehan
Francie Grehan
Helen "Bernie" Grehan
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