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“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.

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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.

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