Skip to main content

Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston

IRISH BOSTON

1939 – Today

Send us Fan Mail

The Indestructible Irish Character, Episode 180

If you have Irish ancestry, there is something in you that does not bend. Sometimes it is mistaken for stubborness but it isn't. It is 800 years of practice, bred into you. From the first Norman incursions in the 12th Century to the bloody battles to secure the Irish Partition in 1921, the British tried to erase us. 

But "Up Yours, Brits, It didn't work".

Support the show