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

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5 The next day, a Loyalist mob burned
the Catholic neighborhood along
Bombay Street to the ground. The
Loyalists, who are fond of their verse,
had a ditty for that attack as well:
On the 15th of August, we took a
little trip
Up along Bombay Street and burned
out all the shit.
We took a little petrol, and we took
a little gun
And we fought the bloody Fenians
till we had them on the run.
6 As Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams
would say years later, the curfew’s
result was that “thousands of people...
who had never had any time for physical