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 some writing, volunteering and learning how to be a bachelor again.
Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
Episode 108 Irish Songs & "Kevin Barry" & the Rest of the Story”
Episode 108 Irish Songs & "Kevin Barry & the Rest of the Story.”My Irish Songs Series begins with the song, "Kevin Barry". It describes the 18 year Irish patriot who was hanged in 1920 in Dublin, soon giving rise to Irish Independence. I then sing the song in a voice meant for photography.
