“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.
Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151
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Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151.
Dublin's Furey family, Finbar, Eddie, Paul and George were an Irish Music dynasty. They were also members of the Irish Travelers, a nomadic Irish clan. After 30 years, Finbar went solo and became very popular as a song writer, a singer and a instrument player. He played the Uillean Pipes, the guitar and sang. This song is emotional and memorable. Finbar Furey is a fovorite of mine.
