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 120 "Raglan Road"
Episode 120 "Raglan Road".
This a song made from a Poem by Patrick Kavanagh. The poem was inspired by a real-life Dublin relationship between Patrick Kavanagh and 22-year-old medical student, Hilda Moriarty in the 1940s. She did not reciprocate his romantic feelings. Despite seeing the danger in the relationship, he is captivated, only to be heartbroken when she leaves him. The poem is a powerful and poignant reflection on love, loss, and regret.
