O'Donoghue's Opera

O'Donoghue's Opera

37 mins | Comedy | March 7, 1998

O'Donoghue's Opera is an Irish film starring Ronnie Drew and his bandmates in The Dubliners. The film is a mock opera, based on the ballad "The Night That Larry Was Stretched". It was shot in 1965, but was left uncompleted after the film's production ran into financial difficulties. In 1996 filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle of Loopline film oversaw its restoration, and it was first shown at the Dublin Film Festival in the late 1990s

O'Donoghue's Opera

37 mins | Comedy | March 7, 1998

O'Donoghue's Opera
O'Donoghue's Opera is an Irish film starring Ronnie Drew and his bandmates in The Dubliners. The film is a mock opera, based on the ballad "The Night That Larry Was Stretched". It was shot in 1965, but was left uncompleted after the film's production ran into financial difficulties. In 1996 filmmaker Sé Merry Doyle of Loopline film oversaw its restoration, and it was first shown at the Dublin Film Festival in the late 1990s
Producers
Original title O'Donoghue's Opera
Directors Kevin Sheldon
Writers

Cast

Ronnie Drew

as Larry

Johnny Moynihan

as himself

Ciáran Bourke

as himself

Luke Kelly

as himself

Barney McKenna

as himself

Bobby Lynch

as himself

John Sheahan

as himself

Marie Grehan

as herself

Francie Grehan

as herself