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“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” If you’re a Roman Catholic, funny and relatively conservative slant, then this is for you.

By: Rod Murphy
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"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.

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  • Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151

    Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151
    Jan 26 2026

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    Finbar Furey & "I Remember You Singing This Song, MA", Episode 151.

    Dublin's Furey family, Finbar, Eddie, Paul and George were an Irish Music dynasty. They were also members of the Irish Travelers, a nomadic Irish clan. After 30 years, Finbar went solo and became very popular as a song writer, a singer and a instrument player. He played the Uillean Pipes, the guitar and sang. This song is emotional and memorable. Finbar Furey is a fovorite of mine.

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    10 mins
  • Dublin City in the Rare Old Times & Irish Songs & The Rest of the Story, Episode 150.

    Dublin City in the Rare Old Times & Irish Songs & The Rest of the Story, Episode 150.
    Jan 21 2026

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    Dublin City in the Rare Old Times & Irish Songs & The Rest of the Story, Episode 150.

    A great Irish nostaglia song about Dublin in the mid 20th Century. Urban renewal, redevelopment turns cities cold and impersonal. The native city dwellers find that they hate it.

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    11 mins
  • Does Growing Up in Boston Raise Your !Q? Episode 141B

    Does Growing Up in Boston Raise Your !Q? Episode 141B
    Jan 21 2026

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    Does Growing Up in Boston Raise Your !Q? Episode 141B

    This Episode examines IQ and can it be raised. Also it askes questions how IQ could be aided by growing up in Metropolitan Boston.

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    11 mins
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