“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.
Episodes
177 episodes
Murphy's Comedy Club, Episode 179
Murphy's Comedy Club, Episode 179More Irish jokes like King Kong's balls, the erudite gorilla, Linoleum Blownapart and Mrs. Murphy's physical exam.
Yes There Was Protestant Support For A United Ireland, Episode 149
Yes There Was Protestant Support For A United Ireland, Episode 149This Episode remembers a Presbyterian clegyman, Rev. James Irwin as a hero of the early 1900s battle against Britain for a Free Ireland. He was born near Derry and had a p...