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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” 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

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Repurp Episode 18 Getting Expelled from College, The...

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2025/12/22

Send us a text Repurp Episode 18 Getting Expelled from College, The Mob & Gambling. This one spells out how my entrepreneurial actions involving the Boston Mafia and gambling caused my college expulsion. It also shows how knowing the right politician can get you out of trouble. Support the show

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Episode 132 Irish Songs & Mrs. Murphy's Chowder & The...

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2025/12/20

Send us a text “Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder” became a popular song notably through Bing Crosby’s 1945 version which was a hit and tied the song to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.The song appeared in movies and was recorded by many artists. Its lyrics were sometimes edited to tone down supposed ethnic slurs like “mick.” By the way, there were other so-called, Irish racial slurs, among them such as Bog walkers and Harps. Don’t you think those were pretty mild slurs? Support ...

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Episode 123 The IRS & Murphy's Comedy Club

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2025/12/20

Send us a text Episode 123 The IRS & Murphy's Comedy Club. Jokes about my favorite relative, Paddy Murphy and the IRS. Support the show

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7:44

Episode 122 Irish Songs & "Only Our Rivers Run Free"...

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2025/12/18

Send us a text Episode 122 Irish Songs & "Only Our Rivers Run Free" & The Rest of the Story. This song is an anthem of Irish nationalism and justice for Catholics. It laments the British Domination before the nation got its independence. Mickey MacConnell, the author compares the Irish rivers running free without borders and the Brit imposed North and South of Ireland's lack of freedom and equality. Support the show

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14:25

Episode 124 Irish Songs & "Song for Ireland" & The...

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2025/12/17

Send us a text Episode 124 Irish Songs & "Song for Ireland" & The Rest of the Story. "Song for Ireland" is a classic. It tells the story of an Irishman who leaves his home and travels the world but he can not escape the memories of his beloved Ireland. A description of the beautiful west of Ireland is included. Support the show

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Repurp Episode 5B 12 Year Old Delinquents & Fenway...

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2025/12/16

Send us a text Repurp Episode 5B 12 Year Old Delinquents & Fenway Park Scamming. One of my many moneymaking gigs, involved Fenway Park and the Red Sox. The father of Basil Iliopoulos, one of my pals, owned a diner on Brookline Avenue, just down from Fenway Park. Basil worked part time at the diner. He told us about a car-parking scheme, that we could pull off near Fenway. Mickey Mickle later to become a notorious Cambridge bookie, Basil, Deacon Donahue dead at 22 from a mob hit and I, fou...

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Repurp Episode 49 My 1957 Quincy Market Wildcat Strike

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2025/12/15

Send us a text Repurp Episode 49 My 1957 Quincy Market Wildcat Strike. When I was 17 and working as a driver salesman for a Quincy Market meat packer, I was surpised by a wildcat strike by the sausage makers. I had begun to load my truck with my previously ordered 10 pound boxes of frankfurters. After I had loaded my truck, breaking through the picket line many times to do so, I went back inside to sign off on my load and get my sales book and written orders. The sales book was about 10” x 12...

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Episode 130 Irish Songs & "The Galway Shawl" & The...

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2025/12/14

Send us a text Episode 130 Irish Songs & "The Galway Shawl" & The Rest of the Story. The story of the Galway Shawl begins in Ancient Babylon, with the creation of the curved teardrop/pine cone fabric design, often referred to as "buta” There is also a kind of mystery and a poetry surrounding these late 19th Century shawls. Galway Shawl stories are full of love, emotion, history and music. This Galway Shawl story travelled from Babylon through a small town called Paisley on the west co...

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Episode 125B Can We Rereserurrect God in Boston &...

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2025/12/11

Send us a text Episode 125B Can We Rereserurrect God in Boston & Spiritual but not Religious Two episodes 125A and 125B with a comparison of Boston's religious situation, Catholic, nonCatholic and unchurched in the 1940s and 50s with the same religious and unchurched population in 2025. Big disparity. Support the show

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Episode 125A Can We Rereserurrect God in Boston &...

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2025/12/11

Send us a text Episode 125A Can We Rereserurrect God in Boston & Spiritual but not Religious. Two episodes 125A and 125B with a comparison of Boston's religious situation, Catholic, nonCatholic and unchurched in the 1940s and 50s with the same religious and unchurched population in 2025. Big disparity. Support the show

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13:37

Repurp Episode 83 The Haymarket & Learning How to...

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2025/12/09

Send us a text Repurp Episode 83 The Haymarket & Learning How to Negotiate. Tagging along with Dad in the 1940s to the open air Haymarket and the Quincy Market. Loud, colorful, exciting, chaotic, fresh vegatables and meat butchers in an outside and downtown marketplace where every purchase was a negotiation. Loved it! Support the show

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7:39

Episode 118 “Irish Songs & O'Donnell Abu & The Rest...

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2025/11/26

Send us a text Episode 118 “Irish Songs & O'Donnell Abu & The Rest of the Story.” The title refers to the Gaelic war cry of “Abú,” which means in Irish “To victory,” and it is the rallying cry for the O’Donnell clan. In 1798 they were called to assemble on the banks of the River Erne in Donegal. The Bonnaught was a type of soldier and a Gallowglass was Scottish mercenary soldier. Those warriors are mentioned in the song and they joined the rest of O’Donnell’s forces and O’Donnell’s fa...

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Episode 120A Irish Songs & "Grace" & The Rest of the...

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2025/11/21

Send us a text Episode 120A Irish Songs & "Grace" & The Rest of the Story. "Grace"is a beautiful and poetic love song. The words in the chorus: are tragic, haunting, poetic, universal and timeless– “Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger They'll take me out at dawn and I will die With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye.” Support the show

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Episode 119 Murphy's Comedy Club

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2025/11/20

Send us a text Episode 119 Murphy's Comedy Club. Irish Cousin Seamus Murphy stories; " Hero Pig", "Smart Blond" and others. Support the show

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Episode 115 Irish Songs & "Willie McBride" & The Rest...

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2025/11/16

Send us a text Episode 115 Irish Songs & "Willie McBride" & The Rest of the Story. “Willie McBride”is both a historical and an anti-war song. At the French gravesite of a young Irishman, Willie McBride, killed in World War 1 the narrator reflects on that horrible war. It was one of the worst meat grinder type wars. Hand-to-hand combat, trench warfare, large forward charges against terrible odds on both sides resulted in a huge loss of young men. Support the show

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Episode 104 Irish Songs & Four Green Fields & The...

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2025/11/14

Send us a text Episode 104 Irish Songs & Four Green Fields & The Rest of the Story. The song is about Ireland, presented as “the fine old woman”and its four provinces; Lienster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught presented as “the four green fields”. Ulster is presented as “taken” or occupied by the British who are presented as “the “strangers”. Makem sings about the fine old woman’s sons or the Irish people fighting and dying defending her Provinces. Its middle stanza is a description of ...

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Episode 117 “Irish Songs & Will You Go, Lassie Go &...

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2025/11/12

Send us a text Episode 117 “Irish Songs & Will You Go, Lassie Go & The Rest of the Story.” “Will You Go, Lassie, Go?"is a Scottish/Irish folk song. The lyrics and melody are a variant of the song "The Braes of Balquhither" by Scottish poet Robert Tannahill and Scottish composer Robert Archibald Smith. It was adapted by Belfast, Ireland musician Francis McPeake into "Will You Go, Lassie Go” and first recorded by McPeake’s nephew in 1957. So while its roots are in Scotland, the song is ...

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Episode 120 "Raglan Road"

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2025/11/12

Send us a text Episode 120 "Raglan Road". This a song made from a Poem by Patrick Kavanagh. The poem was inspired by a real-life Dublin relationship between Patrick Kavanagh and 22-year-old medical student, Hilda Moriarty in the 1940s. She did not reciprocate his romantic feelings. Despite seeing the danger in the relationship, he is captivated, only to be heartbroken when she leaves him. The poem is a powerful and poignant reflection on love, loss, and regret. Support the show

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Episode 112 Doo Wop & Murphy's Take on 1950s Music

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2025/10/31

Send us a text Episode 112 Doo Wop & Murphy's Take on 1950s Music. 1950s Popular music fad for pubescent kids in Boston and America. The Platters, Little Richard, The Coasters, Fats Domino, etc. Record Hops. Jitterbugging and close dancing too. Support the show

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Episode 113 Irish Songs & Carrickfergus & The Rest of...

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2025/10/30

Send us a text Episode 113 Irish Songs & Carrickfergus & The Rest of the Story. Carrickfergus is one of the most haunting and beautiful Irish songs. This episode explains the song and unconfuses the puzzles in it. Support the show

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