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 115 Irish Songs & "Willie McBride" & The Rest of the Story.
Episode 115 Irish Songs & "Willie McBride" & The Rest of the Story.
“Willie McBride”is both a historical and an anti-war song. At the French gravesite of a young Irishman, Willie McBride, killed in World War 1 the narrator reflects on that horrible war. It was one of the worst meat grinder type wars. Hand-to-hand combat, trench warfare, large forward charges against terrible odds on both sides resulted in a huge loss of young men.
