“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 M...
Fr. Murphy & Boolavogue, Irish Songs, Episode 121
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Fr. Murphy & Boolavogue, Irish Songs, Episode 121
Fr. John Murphy of County Wexford was a hero priest during the 1798 Irish Rebellion against the British. He was leader in the battle. He was tortured, burned and decpitated bt the Brits. A real Irish martyr.
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #27, Blonde Jokes Plus, Episode 232
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #27, Blonde Jokes Plus, Episode 232
Blondy jokes
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Roddy McCorley, Irish Songs, Episode 230
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Roddy McCorley, Irish Songs, Episode 230
Irish patriot of the 1798 Irish Rebellion informed on and hanged on the Bridge of Toome, near Antrim.
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #29, New England Jokes, Episode 233
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #29, New England Jokes, Episode 233
Mass. NH, Maine, Vermont, Conn & RI jokes
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #28, Just Jokes, Episode 232
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Murphy's Comedy Club, #28, Just Jokes, Episode 232
Various jokes
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The Patriot Game, Irish Songs, Episode 229
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The Patriot Game, Irish Songs, Episode 229
The Patriot Game is an Irish Ballad written by Dominic Behan. He criticizes the romantization of the violence and death of the 1950s uprising against the occupying British forces by the IRA.
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Murphy's Comedy Club, Church Jokes, Episode 227
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Murphy's Comedy Club, Church Jokes, Episode 227
Jesus & The Martians and other jokes
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The Last Farewell, Irish Songs, Episode 224
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The Last Farewell, Irish Songs, Episode 224
"The Last Farewell" is a song by the British folk singer Roger Whittaker who did the vocals on the original recording and Ron A. Webster who wrote the poem and the lyrics. Whittaker hosted a radio program in the United Kingdom, backed by an orchestra with arrangements by Zack Lawrence. Roger Whittaker said, "One of the ideas I had was to invite listeners to send their poems or lyrics to me and I would make songs out of them. We got a million replies, and I...
Redo AI & The Crisis of Young Men, Episode 231
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Redo AI & The Crisis of Young Men, Episode 231
Maybe there is no such a crisis. Maybe young men but not young women have figured out that college degrees are too expensive with little payback and have become unnecessary in today’s economy, with a few highly technical job exceptions,
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Seamus Heaney, Irish Writers Series, Episode 228
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Seamus Heaney, Irish Writers Series, Episode 228
Seamus Heaney, Renowned Irish Poet, Irish Patriot, Harvard Professor and my Cambridge neighbor.
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