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

didn’t matter. “We were all suspects in
their eyes,” she went on. “That’s the way
it was. And Eamon was shot, shot by a
British soldier. Him and another fellow
were having a smoke, and one shot rang
out, and Eamon got it. He lived for
eleven weeks. He died on the sixteenth
of January, at seventeen and a half years
of age.” She began to tear up. “My father
never worked again at the dock. My
mother was destroyed, heartbroken. It’s
forty years ago this year. It’s still
rough.”
Lawlor was a young wife and mother,
living what she had expected would be a
normal life in modern Belfast. But then
she lost her home. She was threatened
and harassed. Her relatives down the