“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.
Disease, Boston's 3 Deckers & Shanty Irish, Episode 203
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Disease, Boston's 3 Deckers & Shanty Irish, Episode 203
Living in Boston, as the Murphys did in the 40s and 50s, with its crowded, small flats, minimum sanitation and lack of space, meant that infectious diseases would be plentifull, contagious and sometimes deadly. The close quarters in 3 deckers resulted in the spreading of diseases to other family members and to neighbors. But Alexander Fleming created penecillin and we all lived happily ever after.
