A celebration of Mick McCarthy the Kerry man behind the popular live music venue The Embankment.
Ronnie Drew, Finbar Furey, Liam Clancy, Eamon Morrissey, Al O'Donnell, Diarmuid O'Leary and The Bards, Dolly McMahon, and more gather in RTÉ television studios. They are here to celebrate Mick McCarthy the man behind The Embankment music venue .
The Embankment a pub on the Blessington Road in County Dublin, under the management of Kerryman Mick McCarthy, has played host to all of these musicians and many more since the 1960s.
The biggest rogue that ever came out of the County Kerry.
Much to the amusement of the guests, Bibi introduces Mick McCarthy as being known as just a rogue. The Dubliners open the show with a performance of 'Oró, 'Sé do Bheatha Abhaile'.
Mick McCarthy chats to Bibi about his time at The Embankment and the banter flies back and forth with the audience. He claims he paid the musicians too much money, tells stories about Ronnie Drew's aspirations to be a show jumper, Barney McKenna's plan to sail to America, his father's Wellington boots, his time working as a bricklayer in Moscow, and how he accidentally bought The Embankment pub.
Photo by Eve Holmes
This episode of 'Bibi' was broadcast on 3 October 1990. The presenter is Bibi Baskin.
'Bibi' was a chat show presented by Bibi Baskin and produced by Justin Nelson. Each programme had a weekly theme, such as a person or an issue, exploring Irish life in both English and Irish. 'Bibi' was first broadcast on 13 October 1988. It ended on 17 March 1992 with a Saint Patrick's Day Special from Australia. Baskin went on to present several similar chat shows on RTÉ Television.
