@NiallStanage Lost Lives....in it's totality, conveys the almost everyday remorseless of intimate violence which is missing from those books which concentrate on the 'high' moments of the conflict. As such, it exposes the grain, a deep personal pain, of life in the north during those years.
@MattPolProf ....This figure preaches anti-modern, regressive ideals and promises riches through mining, triggering mass hysteria, scapegoating, and ultimately, a ritual murder. Narrated by a local doctor, the story explores themes of collective madness and irrationality.
@MattPolProf A thought-provoking article. I would add that the emotional power and political strategies employed by historical, interwar fascism, are well articulated in the work of Ernst Bloch [Heritage of our Times] and in the novels of Hermann Brock [The Spell]