“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.
Episodes
219 episodes
Murphy's Comedy Club, #23, Episode 220
Murphy's Comedy Club, #23, Episode 220Military jokes, talking dog jokes. Dorchester jokes, Rooster jokes.
Flannery O'Connor, Irish Writers Series, Episode 215
Flannery O'Connor, Irish Writers Series, Episode 215Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the best short story writers of the 20th Century. She was born in Savannah Geogia, one of very few Roman Catholics. He family was from Tipperary a...
Murphy's Comedy Club, Boston Jokes, Episode 218
Murphy's Comedy Club, Boston Jokes, Episode 218Jabber Murphy, South End Irish Pub, Savin Hill, Dolly Parton's Chest, American, Russian & Italian Spies, All in jokes/
Magazine Beach, Then & Now, Episode 219
Magazine Beach, Then & Now, Episode 219Magazine Beach is a 15 acre riverside park in Cambridge, Mass., located on the banks of the Charles River, across the Cottage Farm Bridge, now called the BU Bridge. It has Revolutionary War begi...
Murphy's Comedy Club, God Jokes Plus, #21, Episode 217
Murphy's Comedy Club, God Jokes Plus, #21, Episode 217St. Francis of Assissi. Marvin Cohen, God, Jewish Bras,Paddy Murphy, Eamon Murphy, Donald Trump and Ludwig Van Beethoven all funny.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Irish Writers, Episode 215
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Irish Writers, Episode 215 The Irish people have been given certain gifts by God but not all Micks have all of those gifts. Some have just a few. Some of those gifts are; that we are healthy and tall, of r...
Murphy's Comedy Club, Religious Jokes Plus #19, Episode 211
Murphy's Comedy Club, Religious Jokes Plus #19, Episode 211 Priest, Rabbi & Pastor jokes, Nun jokes and others.
The Flying Irishman Plus, Episode 214
The Flying Irishman Plus, Episode 214This episode describes two Michael C. Murphys., both Army Lt. Colonels. One was the legendary "Flying Irishman of D Day fame from Indiana. The other was a Civil War Medal of Honor winner from Limerick...
Lt. Michael P. Murphy, Medal of Honor Winner, Episode 213
Lt. Michael P. Murphy, Medal of Honor Winner, Episode 213This one is about Lieutenant Michael Patrick Murphy, born May 7, 1976, was a United States Navy SEAL officer who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Ho...
The Rising of the Moon, Irish Songs, Episode 212
The Rising of the Moon, Irish Songs, Episode 212This episode, “The Rising of the Moon” refers to the ballad describing the orders for the rebels to rise up in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 . It recounts the battle beween the United Irishme...