Osmond Esmonde's dominion odyssey: Irish nationalism in the British empire, 1920-21
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On 17 December 1920, the S.S. Makura departed Vancouver, bound for Sydney. Travelling first class on board was a fashionable young Irishman with an aristocratic air. Tall, handsome and languorous, sporting a monocle, bowtie and a pencil moustache, the distinctive-looking twenty-four year-old had set out from New York earlier that month. Prior to leaving Canada, he had been interviewed by a reporter for the Vancouver Daily World's social column, but his comments were considered, portentously, 'too seditious for publication'. By the turn of the new year, as the vessel made its way from Fiji to Auckland, the young Irishman had been travelling continuously for almost a month. One evening, probably bored and possibly drunk, he sat at a piano and made a mistake that would see him detained for five months, deported five times, and tried twice for sedition. He regaled his fellow passengers in the saloon with a bawdy and satirical song he had written about Viscount French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, involving a pair of cement trousers and a bodyguard of tanks. Some took offence. The young man became the talk of the vessel; rumour spread that he was a representative of the Irish Diplomatic Mission in Washington D.C. Upon the Makura's arrival at Auckland, a concerned traveller informed the local authorities. The young Irishman was served an order prohibiting his landing for forty-eight hours. By the time this period had elapsed, the Makura was sailing for Sydney. But this particular passenger was not to be permitted to proceed unharried.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".