Rhys Morgan.<i>The Welsh and the Shaping of Early Modern Ireland, 1558–1641</i>.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study of modern (post-1750) Welsh migration has received considerable attention in recent years with a swath of publications relating to Welsh emigrants in America, Australia, Canada, Patagonia, and elsewhere. However, earlier patterns of migration and settlement have not received the same level of consideration. This is puzzling given the richness of the evidence that is available in English, Irish, and Welsh archives as evident from this book’s bibliography. In this context, Rhys Morgan’s new study offers fascinating insight into the importance of Welsh involvement, as soldiers and colonizers, in Ireland. Indeed, as he points out, “Welsh men and women played a pervasive role in the English government’s attempt to conquer, govern and settle early modern Ireland” (1), but he rightly observes that the Welsh are “a largely invisible group in the historiography of the conquest and settlement of Ireland” (6). As such, Morgan’s study is a timely corrective. Initially, Morgan provides a stimulating introduction that attempts to locate Welsh involvement in Ireland and Britain in this period while also discussing the historiography of Cambro-Hibernic relations in the context of the field. Although the latter is a brief section problematizing “New English” studies, it is a very welcome addition that further debunks the notion that military occupation and colonization was comprehensive or indeed led by “a coherent and united community with shared ideals, goals and beliefs” (6). Moreover, he explains that this study of Welsh participation in Ireland fills the lacunae in our knowledge and distinguishes their contribution from that of their English counterparts as a socially and culturally distinct body.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".