“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.
Episode 118 “Irish Songs & O'Donnell Abu & The Rest of the Story”
Episode 118 “Irish Songs & O'Donnell Abu & The Rest of the Story.”
The title refers to the Gaelic war cry of “Abú,” which means in Irish “To victory,” and it is the rallying cry for the O’Donnell clan. In 1798 they were called to assemble on the banks of the River Erne in Donegal. The Bonnaught was a type of soldier and a Gallowglass was Scottish mercenary soldier. Those warriors are mentioned in the song and they joined the rest of O’Donnell’s forces and O’Donnell’s father-in-law, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone and his troops to protect O’Donnell lands.
