“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.
Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, That's an Irish Lullaby, Episode 189
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Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ra, That's an Irish Lullaby, Episode 189
TooRa LooRa LooRa had its beginnings at least as far back as 1837 with a humorous doggerell in the New York Monthly Magazine. It likely has roots in a nonsense word, “tur el lur elu” that was used in a 1720 French-language Christmas song, "Patapan". It has become associated with Irish American singer and songwriter Chauncey Olcott. Bing Crosby also had a hit record with this song.
