Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston

About 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.

Publisher

Rod Murphy

Category

history · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2025

Latest episode

17 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

185 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Seamus Heaney, Irish Writers Series, Episode 228

   Send us Fan Mail Seamus Heaney, Irish Writers Series, Episode 228 Seamus Heaney, Renowned Irish Poet, Irish Patriot, Harvard Professor and my Cambridge neighbor. Support the show

2. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Murphy's Comedy Club #25, Married Couples Jokes Plus, Episode 226

   Send us Fan Mail Murphy's Comedy Club #25, Married Couples Jokes Plus, Episode 226 Lots of Husbands & Wives jokes Support the show

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Eugene O'Neill, Irish Writer Series, Episode 223

   Send us Fan Mail Eugene O'Neill, Irish Writer Series, Episode 223 Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was given this honor "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy," according to the Nobel Prize website. Eugene O’Neill’s Irish heritage was a central, self-acknowledged force in his identity, his worldview, and his dramatic work. In 1946 he told his son Eugen...

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YouTube views

119

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

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Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

63

Engagement

32

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