This website was setup to promote my podcast, “Growing Up Poor in Irish Boston”. The podcast was based on a book that I wrote in the 1970s, Growing Up, Unwashed”. The podcast is a kind of memoir.
A quote from Professor Anthony Esolen, of Providence College is relevant. He said, “When a society is uprooted, it no longer tells its children stories. People who love their children tell them stories about when they were children. If you only have what is now, you lead a pretty thin life.” So I and the other Murphys have led a pretty thick life.
Much of this retrospective has been edited to remove things of which I am not proud. Confession is the most wonderful of the many wonders of the Roman Catholic Church. Those things, of which I am not proud, have been confessed through a priest to my God and I am now forgiven. I am happy the Church does not charge by the sin or I would have very large debts.
I am thankful for my mother, father, brother and sisters. I am very grateful to my loving wife, Jean and to my wonderful children and grandchildren. There are friends still alive and many passed on, who were positive forces in my life. When I was young and even up until today, many people have gone out of their way to help me. Sometimes it has cost them much. I am thankful to them also.
I see no reason not to be frank with my opinions in this podcast therefore, here and there, I let it rip. I hope I don’t hurt anyone by what I have said here. I attempted to say it, as I remembered it, as positively and with as much honesty and humor as I could muster. If I have hurt someone, I apologize.
This is the introductory episode. There are 200 others so far. Try one of kid podcasts for the flavor of the series.
