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

(Darren Dugan) #1
Build a bonfire, build a bonfire,
Stick a Catholic on the top,
Put the Pope right in the middle,
And burn the fucking lot.^4

Northern Ireland is not a large country.
Its cities are dense and compact, and as
the Loyalists march by each summer in
their bowler hats and sashes with flutes,
they inevitably pass by the
neighborhoods of the people whose
defeat they are celebrating. The central
artery of Catholic West Belfast is, in
places, no more than a few minutes’
walk from the street that runs through the
heart of Protestant West Belfast. There
are places in Belfast where the houses of

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