not enough of you dead.” A man named
Thomas Burns was shot by a soldier on
the Falls Road at eight p.m. as he stood
with a friend who was boarding up the
windows of his store. When his sister
came to pick up his body, she was told
he had no business being on the street at
that time. At eleven p.m., an elderly man
named Patrick Elliman, thinking the
worst was over, went out in his bedroom
slippers and shirtsleeves for a pre-
bedtime stroll. He died in a burst of
army gunfire. One of the neighborhood
accounts of the curfew says of Elliman’s
death:
That very night British troops actually