“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.
Yesterday's & Today's Boston Ethnic Restaurants, Episode 204
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Yesterday's & Today's Boston Ethnic Restaurants, Episode 204
The dining scene in the 1950s Boston featured a vibrant array of eating establishments, among them were those owned and operated by immigrants or their families. That reflected the waves of immigrants from Italy, Greece, Russia, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal. Syria, Poland, China and others.
The neighborhoods were in the North End, Chinatown, Cambridge, South Boston, East Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, downtown and more. Most restaurants were small, family run spots without famous names.
