“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
"Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” is a podcast series, colored with humor, nostalgia and pathos. It’s about a Boston tenement kid, born in 1939, clawing his way out of poverty by being hard-working, creative, persistent, entrepreneurial and by taking risks often. There are also stories of my later life in Boston, Cambridge and New England. If you like old Boston stories or Irish-American stories or old Cambridge stories, this is your podcast. If you like Pull-Yourself-Up-By-The-Bootstrap type stories and/or down-to-earth philosophy with a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
I am Roderick Patrick Murphy, born into a large, loving Irish family in Boston, widowed after 50+ happy years. So I am now doing some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
“Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.
Latest Episodes
"The Town I Loved So Well", Episode 143
"The Town I Loved So Well", Episode 143A wonderful, moving song by Phil Coulter about the Irish town of Derry and its centuries of battle against much more powerful British usurpers. Protestants against Catholics, British kings against o...
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, That's an Irish Lullaby, Episode 189
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, That's an Irish Lullaby, Episode 189 TooRa LooRa LooRa had its beginnings at least as far back as 1837 with a humorous doggerell in the New York Monthly Magazine. It likely has roots in a nonsense word, “tur el...
Fan Mail
Hi. Great memories of Mountain Crotched in Greenfield/Bennington. They have a special Hospital there for crippled children known all over the world , I knew a few people who worked with the children when I was working with Handicapped kids, beautiful place to work.
Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
