Chapter 2 - Nation: Reconciliation and the Politics of Friendship in Post-Troubles Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter suggests that a discernible trend in post-Troubles Northern Irish fiction and drama is to revisit and revise the “love across the barricades” plot and, in this way, to (re)imagine new forms of political community beyond the communitarian divide. It argues that friendship may offer an alternative model for a political reconciliation than suggested by the peace process and outlined by the 1998 Agreement. Drawing on Andrew Schaap and Hannah Arendt, I propose a distinction between a filiative and an affiliative politics of reconciliation: between one that is predicated on the ideal of a stable community with a common identity and one that foregrounds the establishment of new forms of relationships, presupposing the irreducible plurality of viewpoints as a basis for dialogue about the common world. Focusing on Robert McLiam Wilson’s Eureka Street (1996), Glenn Patterson’s The Rest Just Follows (2014) and Mary O’Donnell’s Where They Lie (2014), this chapter suggests that all three novels consider friendship as a political principle that can give rise to an affiliative reconciliation in invoking a not-yet community beyond ethnonational lines.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".