All 33 Uses
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- No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.†
Chpt 1 *
- Everyone calls him The Abbot or Ab Sheehan and no one knows why.†
Chpt 5
- I call him Ab or The Abbot like everybody else.†
Chpt 13
- In the morning The Abbot gives me the money to go to Kathleen O'Connell's for bread, margarine, tea, milk.†
Chpt 14
- I can read the English and Irish papers The Abbot brings home or I can use the library cards of Laman Griffin and my mother till I'm found out.†
Chpt 14
- The Abbot says, What's up with you?†
Chpt 14
- I bring home the bread and even if The Abbot is surprised he doesn't say, Where did you get it?†
Chpt 14
- The Abbot knows where I got the apples.†
Chpt 14
- I always offer The Abbot an apple but he won't eat it because of the scarcity of teeth in his head.†
Chpt 14
- I take my chips home and get into bed like The Abbot.†
Chpt 14
- I lick the girls in their bathing suits and when there's nothing left to lick I look at the girls till The Abbot blows out the light and I'm committing a mortal sin under the blanket.†
Chpt 14
- The Abbot comes home at five and makes tea downstairs and even though I'm hungry I know he'll grumble if I ask him for anything.†
Chpt 14
- I have no other clothes and if I touch anything of The Abbot's he'll surely run to Aunt Aggie.†
Chpt 14
- The worst thing in the world is to be sleeping in your dead grandmother's bed wearing her black dress when your uncle The Abbot falls on his arse outside South's pub after a night of drinking pints and people who can't mind their own business rush to Aunt Aggie's house to tell her so that she gets Uncle Pa Keating to help her carry The Abbot home and upstairs to where you're sleeping and she barks at you, What are you doin' in this house, in that bed?†
Chpt 14
- The worst thing in the world is to be sleeping in your dead grandmother's bed wearing her black dress when your uncle The Abbot falls on his arse outside South's pub after a night of drinking pints and people who can't mind their own business rush to Aunt Aggie's house to tell her so that she gets Uncle Pa Keating to help her carry The Abbot home and upstairs to where you're sleeping and she barks at you, What are you doin' in this house, in that bed?†
Chpt 14
- That's the worst thing of all because it's hard to explain that you're getting ready for the big job in your life, that you washed your clothes, they're drying abroad on the line, and it was so cold you had to wear the only thing you could find in the house, and it's even harder to talk to Aunt Aggie when The Abbot is groaning in the bed, Me feet is like a fire, put water on me feet, and Uncle Pa Keating is covering his mouth with his hand and collapsing against the wall laughing and telling you that you look gorgeous and black suits you and would you ever straighten your hem.†
Chpt 14
- and you have to stand there in the dress with the kettle in your hand and explain how you washed your clothes which are hanging there on the line for all to see and you were so cold in the bed you put on your grandmothers dress and your uncle Pat, The Abbot, fell down and was brought home by Aunt Aggie and her husband, Pa Keating, and she drove you into the backyard to fill this kettle and you'll take off this dress as soon as ever your clothes are dry because you never had any desire to go through life in your dead grandmother's dress.†
Chpt 14
- By the time the kettle boils The Abbot is asleep from the drink and Aunt Aggie says she and Uncle Pa will have a drop of tea themselves and she doesn't mind if I have a drop myself.†
Chpt 14
- The Abbot wakes at dawn moaning.†
Chpt 15
- I bring The Abbot his tea and bread and make some for myself.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot is sitting up telling me he has a terrible pain in his head from a dream where I was wearing his poor mother's black dress and she flying around screaming, Sin, sin, 'tis a sin.†
Chpt 15
- She must be coming to see if The Abbot is dead or needing a doctor.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot sees me in my new clothes.†
Chpt 15
- He's hungry and wonders if there's any chance he could go to The Abbot's for a bit of bread and stay there for the night instead of going all the way to Laman Griffin's.†
Chpt 15
- After the film we have tea and buns and we sing and dance like Cagney all the way to The Abbot's.†
Chpt 15
- School starts in September and some days Michael stops at The Abbot's before the walk home to Laman Griffin's.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot pays the rent every week.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot has his own bed, and my mother has the small room.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot says you're not supposed to be sitting on kitchen floors, what are tables and chairs for?†
Chpt 15
- We sit on the floor and sing and Mam and The Abbot sit on chairs.†
Chpt 15
- She sings "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and the Abbot sings "The Road to Rasheen" and we still don't know what his song is about.†
Chpt 15
- The Abbot brings six bottles of stout and says, That's all right, Frankie, ye can all drink it as long as I have a bottle or two for meself to help me sing me song.†
Chpt 18-19
- The Abbot ends his song, opens his eyes, wipes his cheeks and tells us that was a sad song about an Irish boy that went to America and got shot by gangsters and died before a priest could reach his side and he tells me don't be gettin' shot if you're not near a priest.†
Chpt 18-19
Definitions:
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(1)
(abbot) a person in charge of a group of monks
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)