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

going any further.” The Lawlors
gathered up their baby and their worldly
possessions and ran for their lives.
At the beginning of 1970, things got
worse. That Easter, there was a riot in
Ballymurphy. The British Army was
called in: a fleet of armored cars with
barbed wire on their bumpers patrolled
the streets. Lawlor would push her pram
past soldiers with automatic rifles and
tear-gas grenades. One weekend in June,
there was a gun battle in the bordering
neighborhood: a group of Catholic
gunmen stepped into the middle of the
road and opened fire on a group of
Protestant bystanders. In response,
Protestant Loyalists tried to burn down a