“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 Great Replacement Theory, Episode 152
Johnny Cash, "40 Shades of Green", Episode 153
More Paddy Jokes & Murphy's Comedy Club, Episode 145
What Happened to Ballroom Dancing? Episode 142.
Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151
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
