'O'Donoghue's Opera' featuring The Dubliners 1965

March 9, 2022 8:03 PM

Starring Ronnie Drew as a Burgler.
posted by lkc (2 comments total)

The Dubliners were an Irish Folk Band that toured for 50 years or so. I came across this movie digging through some old youtube appearances and thought it should be shared.

A few more:
Ronnie Drew's Heaven written and read by John Sheahan
Fiddlers Green with Barney McKenna
Limerick Rake sung by Ciaran Bourke
Scorn Not His Simplicity with Luke Kelly
Octopus Jig ft. ^^^

and I guess, The Irish Rover with The Pogues merits a mention.

(sorry, I submitted too quick, if mods want to [more inside] this, feel free.)
posted by lkc at 8:17 PM on March 9, 2022 [1 favorite]

Let's talk about hair. Dr Zhivago came out in the same 1965 year. David Lean was at great pains to present something that was historically authentic . . . except he missed mussing Julie Christie's hair, all mid-60s Jackie Kennedy - that was invisibly normal background to Lean and a source of regret later. Apart from the everywhere cigarettes, that's what stands up and out in the Opera.
And I'll share about a farmer from The North dismissing the, then new and trendy, Dubliners and Ronnie Drew's beard "You can't take a feller seriously, if his face looks like a sheep's arse!"
Merrion Row is now more pedestrian-friendly [GoogleMaps] and the monochrome Mex petrol station opposite O'Donoghue's has been replaced by a bright red Spar convenience store. Progress.
posted by BobTheScientist at 12:14 AM on March 10, 2022 [1 favorite]