Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston
"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
Episode 80 The Whole Murphy Family Goes to Europe This episode relates the European vacation that the Murphys took to France and Ireland but mostly Ireland. We went to my grandparents' counties and towns. We also visited a lot of other. beatiful areas in my ancestral home.
Episode 76 Stop Living a Life of Quiet Desperation This episode gives advice to a possible viewer/listerner who might hate his job and present life.It's possible to change. I use my relative financial success which started with very little, as an example.
Episode 72 South Boston Stories. Being an Irish American in Boston made it impossible not be involved in many ways with South Boston or Southie, the Irish Heart of Boston. It was a love/hate kind of relationship for me. Here's a few vignettes on Southie.
Ep. 1B The Murphys, Tom & Helen's Kids. This episode details the character building by my parents, Tom & Helen Murphy of their kids and how it has shown up in our lives.
Episode 24 Murphy & Milan Heroes spells out in detail my family's military service contributions; Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, etc.
Episode 6 Catholic Newspaper Drives. During and after World War 2, Roman Catholic parishes in Boston and elsewhere raised money by organizing Newspaper Drives. Parishioners and others would save their newspapers and magazines for donation and pickup for regular Church Newspaper Drives. Everyone read newspapers then. Kids were part of the pickup.
Ep. 73 Not For PETA Types & Prohibition & Toy Soldiers. Four different vignettes, the Watertown Abbatoir, Chicken stealing. Prohibition and Toy Soldiers.
Ep 9. My Father's Friend, Phil Gustafson Phil was a great friend of my father, Tom Murphy and some funny stories about Phil, the athiest and his contretemps with the very Catholic Murphys.
Ep. 13. Irish Spaghetti & Neighborhood Alcoholics. How not to make good spaghetti, Also a description of alcoholism in my 1950s neighborhood.
Episode 57A My Journey From Salesman to Entrepreneur lays out my history working as a salesman for the man interspered with many entrepreneurial startups, culminating with Degreasing Devices Co. finale.
Episode 57B My Journey From Salesman to Entrepreneur lays out my history working as a salesman for the man interspered with many entrepreneurial startups, culminating with Degreasing Devices Co. finale.
Episode 20 Boston Kid Loose in Manhattan describes my 11 year old adventures staying in Brooklyn with my brother and walking all over Manhattan and Brooklyn during a Christmas vacation.
Ep. 71D Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes taking place in locations in Ireland and the the USA.
Ep. 69 Covid & Keeping Up with the Jones. In this Episode you will find my criticism of today's mindlessness and conformity to government and media. I focus particularly on our compliant acceptance of the dictatorial goverment edicts and the sheepish compliance of Americans thereof, regarding the Covid disease.
Ep. 69 Advice on Starting Over Ep. Some advice from someone who has started over more than once.
Ep. 56 Second Hand Stuff, Sallies & The Morgie. This episode details how my parents bought clothing, shoes, etc. for 7 kids on my Dad's meager income. Lots of detail on the 1940s and 50s Boston second hand stores.
Ep. 29 Quincy Quarries. "Danger increases the fun for teen aged boys." Some really dangerous examples of what my youthful friends and I considered swimming holes fun.
Ep. 68 Troubles Era Letter From County Cork Cousin & An Irish Song. An imagined letter from a cousin to his immigrated cousin about the Irish rebels and the Troubles with some humor, of course and a Song.
Ep. 71B Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes in locations in Ireland and the the USA.
Ep. 71C Murphy's Comedy Club provides another batch of Paddy Murphy jokes in locations in Ireland and the the USA.
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