All 35 Uses of
Protestant
in
Angela's Ashes
- Angela, new mother, agitated, forgot she was holding the child and let him slip into the baptismal font, a total immersion of the Protestant type.†
Chpt 1
- This maddened Malachy again and he wanted to jump at the priest for calling the child some class of a Protestant.†
Chpt 1
- The Protestants went round telling good Catholics that if they gave up their faith and turned Protestant they'd get more soup than their bellies could hold and, God help us, some Catholics took the soup, and were ever after known as soupers and lost their immortal souls doomed to the deepest part of hell.†
Chpt 2
- The Protestants went round telling good Catholics that if they gave up their faith and turned Protestant they'd get more soup than their bellies could hold and, God help us, some Catholics took the soup, and were ever after known as soupers and lost their immortal souls doomed to the deepest part of hell.†
Chpt 2
- If we left it up to you we'd have the poor people of Limerick jumping into the arms of the Protestants.†
Chpt 2
- She goes to priests, nuns, Protestants, Quakers.†
Chpt 4
- Haven't we bared our necks to the Protestant ax?†
Chpt 4
- Bared our necks to the Protestant ax, sir.†
Chpt 4
- There are families that are ashamed of themselves because their forefathers gave up their religion for the sake of a bowl of Protestant soup during the Famine and those families are known ever after as soupers.†
Chpt 5
- He asks Grandma if she'd mind taking down that statue because he's a Protestant and he wouldn't be able to sleep.†
Chpt 5
- Grandma barks at Uncle Pat for not telling her he was dragging a Protestant into the house.†
Chpt 5
- Uncle Pat says he didn't know Bill Galvin was a Protestant.†
Chpt 5
- He looks like an ordinary Catholic and you'd never imagine a Protestant would be shoveling lime.†
Chpt 5
- Every day I take the can back Grandma makes me kneel to the statue of the Sacred Heart and tell Him I'm sorry and all this over Bill Galvin, a Protestant.†
Chpt 5
- It's the sermon that saves millions of Chinese and other heathens from winding up in hell with the Protestants.†
Chpt 5
- On Sunday mornings in Limerick I watch them go to church, the Protestants, and I feel sorry for them, especially the girls, who are so lovely, they have such beautiful white teeth.†
Chpt 7
- I feel sorry for the beautiful Protestant girls, they're doomed.
Chpt 7 *Protestant = a member of any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
- Protestant girl, come with me to the True Church.†
Chpt 7
- Croquet is a Protestant game.†
Chpt 7
- He has to be hard, says Grandma, otherwise you'd have all kinds of babies clamorin' to get into heaven, Protestants an' everything, an' why should they get in after what they did to us for eight hundred years?†
Chpt 7
- Priests and masters tell us Confirmation means you're a true soldier of the Church and that entitles you to die and be a martyr in case we're invaded by Protestants or Mahommedans or any other class of a heathen.†
Chpt 8
- The nurse tells me go to sleep but I can't because I see people in the nineteen beds in the ward all dying and green around their mouths where they tried to eat grass and moaning for soup Protestant soup any soup and I cover my face with the pillow hoping they won't come and stand around the bed clawing at me and howling for bits of the chocolate bar my mother brought last week.†
Chpt 8
- If the weather is fine people are playing croquet, the Protestant game, or strolling around, talking and laughing, all decked out in flowery dresses and blazers with crests and golden buttons and you'd never know there was a war on.†
Chpt 15
- The best people for tips are widows, Protestant ministers' wives and the poor in general.†
Chpt 15
- Protestant ministers' wives would never carry on like Scrawby Luby's old widow unless they're widows themselves.†
Chpt 15
- Christy Wallace, who is a permanent telegram boy and ready to be a postman any day, says Protestants don't care what they do even if they're ministers'wives.†
Chpt 15
- All the telegram boys like Protestant ministers' wives.†
Chpt 15
- But you're a Protestant, already doomed, in hell, like Theresa.†
Chpt 16
- There's a sign in an office window on O'Connell Street, SMART BOY WANTED, NEAT HANDWRITING, GOOD AT SUMS, APPLY HERE TO MANAGER, MR. MCCAFFREY, EASONS LTD. I stand outside the place of the exam, the house of the Limerick Protestant Young Men's Association.†
Chpt 16
- We distribute The Irish Times, a Protestant paper, run by the freemasons in Dublin.†
Chpt 16
- Going to work for Easons he is, working for that pack of freemasons and Protestants above in Dublin.†
Chpt 16
- The biggest customer for the magazine, Mr. Hutchinson, tells Mr. McCaffrey get to hell out of his shop or he'll brain him, get away from them magazines, and when Mr. McCaffrey keeps on tearing out pages Mr. Hutchinson throws him into the street, Mr. McCaffrey yelling that this is a Catholic country and just because Hutchinson is a Protestant that doesn't give him the right to sell filth in the holiest city in Ireland.†
Chpt 17
- Shops complain to Mr. McCaffrey that The Irish Times is coming in decorated with bits of ice and dog shit and he mutters to us that's the way that paper should be delivered, Protestant rag that it is.†
Chpt 17
- There are reports about Protestant weddings and pictures and the women always look lovelier than the ones we know in the lanes .†
Chpt 17
- You can see Protestant women have perfect teeth although Halvey's Rose had lovely teeth.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(Protestant) of or relating to any of the Western churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformationeditor's notes: The word Protestant is based on the word protest -- in reference to the protest against the Catholic church.
The most common protestant denominations include Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians.