David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

troops. To a fiercely Catholic neighborhood, Freeland bought in soldiers from the Royal Scots—one of the most obviously and self ...

those British soldiers, looking back on what happened that night: A guy still in his pajamas came out cursing, wielding a lamp, ...

and crucifixes (snapped); kids crying; crunching on the glass of the Pope’s picture; unfinished meals and bad wallpaper; coloure ...

not enough of you dead.” A man named Thomas Burns was shot by a soldier on the Falls Road at eight p.m. as he stood with a frien ...

entered and quartered themselves in the shot man’s home, the distraught sister having been moved to the other brother’s up the s ...

A door broken down. A window broken. Dirty dishes left in the sink. Leites and Wolf believed that all that counts are rules and ...

were crowded, and the homes were narrow—cheaply built nineteenth- century terraced redbrick row houses, with one room to a floor ...

Máire Drumm.^8 She had a bullhorn. She marched through the streets, shouting to the women: “Come out! Fill your prams with bread ...

Their batons were out. We turned and went down the Grosvenor Road, singing and shouting. I think the Brits were in awe. They cou ...

didn’t want to get trampled. They came out with brutality. I remember standing up on top of a car and having a look at what was ...

children of the Lower Falls.^9 He told his men to stop. “You have to understand, the march was still coming down the road, and t ...

street. The Brits gave up. They had their hands up. The women forced—and we forced and we forced—until we got in, and we got in ...

1 An impressive number of famous people have come from Brownsville over the years: two heavyweight boxing champions (Mike Tyson ...

49 64 79 High school dropouts 4.2 8.0 15.3 High school only0.7 2.5 4.1 Some college 0.7 0.8 1.2 BLACK MEN 1945– 49 1960– 64 1975 ...

its way through the city and ends up in the “Field,” a large staging area where the crowd gathers for public speeches. Here is a ...

Auschwitz when they stood back and watched thousands go out to death without one word of condemnation. 4 There are many versions ...

available on YouTube. 5 The next day, a Loyalist mob burned the Catholic neighborhood along Bombay Street to the ground. The Loy ...

force now accepted it as a practical necessity.” 7 By the way, things didn’t get much better in 1973. The British cracked down e ...

into the Lower Falls. The second was to take guns and explosives out—past the unsuspecting eyes of the British Army. ...

Chapter Eight ...