Harriet Carson is an Irish Catholic woman who rallies support for the people of Lower Falls who have been forced into their homes by the British military. Because these people are beginning to starve as a result of this violently enforced curfew, Carson urges other Catholic women to march to Lower Falls with bread in their baby strollers—an act that confounds the British soldiers and succeeds in getting them to leave.
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Harriet Carson Character Timeline in David and Goliath
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Chapter 7: Rosemary Lawlor
While at her parents in Ballymurphy one day, Lawlor hears a woman named Harriet Carson walking through the streets and calling out to the residents, urging them to come outside....
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...institutes a curfew, forcing everyone into their homes. Within days, the residents are starving, so Harriet Carson rallies Catholics in Ballymurphy, urging them to bring food to the people of Lower Falls....
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