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

force now accepted it as a practical
necessity.”
7 By the way, things didn’t get much
better in 1973. The British cracked
down even harder that year, and there
were 171 civilians killed, 5,018
shootings, 1,007 explosions, 1,317
armed robberies, and 17.2 tons of
explosives seized by the army.
8 Six years later, Drumm was shot to
death in her bed by Protestant extremists
while she was being treated at Mater
Hospital in Belfast.
9 One of the many legends of the
Lower Falls curfew is that the prams
pushed by marchers had two purposes.
The first was to bring milk and bread