Departed
County Cork, Ireland for the U.S.A. in 1911
left
Ireland where they worked as masons,
laborers, slate roofers, and farmers.
They came to the United States in
the early 1900’s, with “ ten cents
in their pockets” looking for the
"American Dream"and settled
in Roxbury,
Massachusetts, near Dudley Square,
and eventually moved into the Orchard
Park Housing, where they met. Their
families attended St. Patrick's
Church and the local schools.
During
the next few years, they worked
together on several construction
projects in and around the Boston
area, as foreman, project supervisors,
and journeymen. As their families
grew, their children:
( 11-Hardimans),
(13-McLaughlins), and ( 10-Murphys),
went
into the armed services, worked
in the construction trades, worked
as civil servants, entered the seminary,
and a few were lucky enough to afford
college. In 1988, the Hardiman
and McLaughlin
families started their own construction
company in memory of their fathers’
pal James Murphy of County Kerry,
Ireland.
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Today, Murphy
Specialty, Inc.
is owned and operated by its president,
Mary A. McLaughlin. Many of the
McLaughlin, Hardiman, and Murphy
children and grand children, as
well as the Finn, Bannon, Kelly,
McCormack, Johansen, Riedle, Richter,
Kallenberg, Elliott, O'Dowd, O'Sullivan,
Coan, Flaherty, and O'Learys'
continue to work for the company
as office managers, superintendents,
foreman, sheet metal workers,
pipefitters, roofers, laborers, and carpenters.
We also have a great, long standing
relationship with our subcontractors
( some of them relatives), which
makes the projects more efficient,
cost effective, and easier to
schedule.
We work very closely with owners,
architects, and engineers, to
provide our clients with no less
than our best effort, highest
quality, and sincere dedication.
"
We make sure that each project
is successfully completed on time,
within budget, while always keeping
with the premise that quality
workmanship is the only way to
do a job, because our name is
on the final product."
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