Michael Vancea David and Goliath Chapter 7 (Difficulty Paper) Rosemary Lawlor was a newlywed Irish Catholic who survived as a teenage mother during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland between the Protestants and the Catholics. During this time, the British army was called in to protect the citizens from rioters. However, after a while, the British had turned on the Irish and gave them curfews in an attempt to control them. ”My father said, ‘The Brits, they’ll turn on us. They say they are in here to protect us. They’ll turn on us—you wait and see.” And he was one hundred percent right. They turned on us. And the curfew was the start of it.” Rosemary fought hard next to many other citizens in an attempt to regain independence.