Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
"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 a lot of writing and I am a bachelor. There are still a few over 60, unencumbered, local ladies that I haven’t dated but I’m working on it.
Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
Ep. 16 Winning the Huck Finn Contest
This Episode portrays the love and thoughtful guidance of my older brother and my family for me, as an extremely curious and alive 10 year old boy. It also lets the listener/viewer observe the real world awareness of the Murphys in the unjust world that we lived in and which still exists.