The Land of Air-Conditioning and Opportunity: America on the Irish Stage
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In her essay, Daughters of Colony, Irish poet Eavan Boland recounts a story her mother heard as a small child, from an old woman. This woman had survived the Irish Famine of 1846-52, when an estimated one million people died of starvation and a further million emigrated to Canada, the United States, and England:1 She had dragged though the hunger, the emigration, the aftershock. Her children had died. Her husband was dead. [… H]er only son, who had emigrated earlier, managed to send her the passage money to join him in New York […] She had reached New York only to find him dead. Then began years and years of work […] Finally she had enough [money] to return to Ireland. A woman alone. No doubt her village gone. No doubt the last vestiges of what she knew and recognized gone. Everything gone but the words in which to tell the terrible story. Everything gone but that air, and space into which the words carried their freight. (11) I have quoted Boland at length because one of the features of emigration from Ireland to America has historically been its construction as exile. The woman’s story illustrates a loss that intimately defines the experience of the emigrant: for him or her, home is unchanging, crystallized in memory as one moment in time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".