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O'Donoghue's Opera (1998)

Name: O'Donoghue's Opera
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998
Duration: 37 min

Directed by Kevin Sheldon

Comedy · 37m

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.