“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
When You and I Were Young, Maggie, Episode 183
When You and I Were Young, Maggie, Episode 183George Washington Johnson of Ontario, Canada wrote this famous ballad in honor of his wife, Margaret, Maggie Clark in 1864. She was suffering from tuberculosis and died soon after they marrie...
The Indestructible Irish Character, Episode 180
The Indestructible Irish Character, Episode 180If you have Irish ancestry, there is something in you that does not bend. Sometimes it is mistaken for stubborness but it isn't. It is 800 years of practice, bred into you. From the first No...
Fan Mail
Rod. Love this section ‼️. Always loved Finbar. I remember vividly Mama Singing. Her soprano was lovely. I always hoped one of us would sing like her. Maureen could really sing. Patrick is good also. I loved singing from Chorus in high school to annoying my boys by singing along with every song I heard. All I need is the first few notes and I know. But my untrained Alto can't compare to Mama's lovely voice.
Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts
