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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.

Written 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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  • "Granny's in Trouble", The Unseen Crisis of Over 60 Women, Episode 154A

    "Granny's in Trouble", The Unseen Crisis of Over 60 Women, Episode 154A
    Feb 28 2026

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    "Granny's in Trouble", The Unseen Crisis of Over 60 Women, Episode 154A

    This podcast relays my discovery after I became a widower that perhaps 50 % of over 60, Boston and American women are financially badly unprepared for old age. Health care housing, Social Security, are just some the problems those mature women face.

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    11 mins
  • The Great Replacement Theory, Episode 152

    The Great Replacement Theory, Episode 152
    Feb 8 2026

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    The Great Replacement Theory, Episode 152

    This episode will discuss a theory that may be described as malevolent entities attempting to replace native born Americans with immigrants. It is called “The Great Replacement”. by some. Is this idea real?

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    13 mins
  • Johnny Cash, "40 Shades of Green", Episode 153

    Johnny Cash, "40 Shades of Green", Episode 153
    Feb 5 2026

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    Johnny Cash, "40 Shades of Green", Episode 153.

    Another of the Irish Song Series, this one by Irish Wannabe, Johnny Cash. He visited Ireland, thinking he was of Irish descent, and loved it so much he wrote this song. Later he discovered he was Scots but still loved Erin.

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    7 mins
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