Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bart Simpson gets drunk for the first time on St Patrick's Day.Surrounded by the glorious trappings of Irish America and in the middle of a parade which memorably includes a James Joyce lookalike on the 'Drunken Irish Novelists of Springfield' float, Bart's plastic horn is accidentally the conduit for a spray of free stout.The parade turns from raucous carnival to silent outrage; 'Stop the celebrations, that small boy's drunk,' says an onlooker.During the writing of this book I've worried at times that either my reader or I will have an experience parallel to Bart's.Caught up in the cacophony of Irish culture, it's easy to lose a sense of perspective.This book attempts to examine how that note of celebration gets attached to 'Ireland' and then perpetuates itself.It addresses the teleology which becomes superimposed on the structures of Irish culture through the concept of the nation, through the processes of modernisation and through the progressive ideal inherent in colonisation.Whether manifested in a desire to be synchronically and completely a nation, or in a need to 'authenticate' the past, or in a continual turn to the pledge of future time, the signs of Ireland find themselves imbricated again and again in what Declan Kiberd calls 'the foreglow of a golden future'.Deconstructing Ireland suggests that 'Ireland' is a future which is always posited and never attained.The book does not seek to find a final paradigmatic or historical cause for the state of 'play' in which Ireland exists.Rather it tracks the processes by which Ireland becomes 'Ireland', a 'cited', quoted version of itself which is both excessive and phantasmal.Despite its title, Deconstructing Ireland is not a strict application of Jacques Derrida's philosophy to Irish studies.Derrida and his ideas appear at various times in the text, and their influence will be apparent to readers who are familiar with deconstructive thought.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".