An bhfuil an leabhar seo Protastúnach nó Caitliceach?

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It' a Catholic-sponsored translation, but they apparently went back to the original sources, so the bulk of it should be satisfactory for Protestants, apart from the usual differences between Catholic and Protestant versions: the extra books, the different ordering of the Ten Commandments (lots of people don't know about that - the Jewish Torah has yet a different numbering, and the Eastern churches have differing ones as well), and the different numbering of verses in other places.

The (Protestant) Bible Society has translated the New Testament, at least (I have a copy), but I don't know whether there are other Protestant versions. I suspect there must be, due to the legends about people having to read a Bible verse to get food at poorhouses in the Famine era (not sure if that ever really happened). Most of the people involved would have to have read an Irish version back then.

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

From comparisons with my various Bibles (I've got a heck of a collection), I think they just went with the Douay-Rheims. In short: Catholic. It follows very faithfully my American Heritage Bible, which is an older (early 1980s) Catholic translation.

Redwolf

Whatever about having to read a verse for a bowl of soup, I suspect most people who were that hungry weren't able to read, period.

It's interesting tho' that just a few hundred yards across the strand from the old beach-side chapel near Carna (Maighros) there is the remains of the Protestant soup kitchen. The aroma of soup wafting across to the starving must have been tempting. I suppose that's why the London bible society built it there.

Thank much folks! I was just curious :}

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