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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 22 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 60015 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 Ireland 17 irish 14 Dublin 12 England 11 illustration 11 Lord 9 St. 9 Patrick 9 English 9 Castle 8 John 8 Galway 7 Sir 7 Mr. 7 Lough 7 King 7 America 7 Abbey 6 Killarney 5 Limerick 5 Henry 4 William 4 London 4 James 4 God 4 Derry 4 Church 4 Bay 3 great 3 day 3 York 3 Tara 3 Shannon 3 Scotland 3 New 3 Leinster 3 League 3 House 3 Head 3 Father 3 Earl 3 Donegal 3 Cork 3 Cashel 3 Boyne 3 Belfast 2 people 2 man 2 little 2 island Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 3368 man 2393 year 2359 day 2344 time 1932 place 1902 people 1685 house 1370 land 1360 country 1331 way 1134 stone 1103 side 1102 town 1083 foot 1070 part 1049 woman 1042 hill 1003 name 996 mile 979 church 978 mountain 972 life 918 one 892 water 889 island 879 century 866 hand 854 wall 818 tenant 794 thing 792 sea 766 work 765 river 758 road 716 child 713 son 710 king 710 castle 696 city 694 world 694 room 679 nothing 677 family 666 rent 659 head 646 eye 642 car 635 home 633 building 626 rock Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3922 Ireland 2090 _ 1632 Mr. 1154 Dublin 956 St. 806 Irish 758 Lord 678 England 516 Castle 499 King 475 Patrick 468 Sir 468 America 419 Father 419 English 412 Galway 392 John 373 Church 370 Earl 365 Lough 344 London 316 Queen 313 God 307 William 307 New 306 Belfast 303 League 303 James 302 Limerick 297 House 292 Killarney 291 Henry 289 Abbey 283 Walter 283 Tara 274 Cork 268 Bay 264 County 254 Ulster 243 George 242 Scotland 238 United 220 York 214 Loch 214 Donegal 213 Leinster 210 Street 206 Land 204 Shannon 203 Europe Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 14445 it 9974 i 9030 he 5879 they 5089 we 3851 them 3530 you 3043 him 2556 me 2249 she 1560 us 870 her 700 himself 484 one 425 themselves 400 itself 200 myself 134 herself 102 ourselves 81 yourself 46 thee 18 ours 17 mine 16 theirs 16 his 12 hers 11 ye 7 ''em 6 yours 6 oneself 5 thyself 5 meself 5 ''s 3 em 2 you''ll 1 yer 1 ye''d 1 theirselves 1 testimonials,''--they 1 order-- 1 o 1 laud--"shameful 1 ireland,--weaves 1 ireland,--turn 1 i''m 1 him,-- 1 hedges,--they 1 express,--you 1 eva 1 delf Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 51928 be 15099 have 3839 do 3270 see 2933 say 2757 make 2726 come 2589 go 2125 take 1886 find 1709 give 1661 know 1436 get 1372 tell 1359 look 1174 seem 1135 think 1099 stand 1092 leave 1039 call 991 pass 915 build 877 live 840 pay 810 hear 783 bring 737 keep 735 show 716 hold 703 ask 684 lie 645 put 635 become 616 use 573 run 561 rise 547 drive 542 follow 531 turn 530 speak 517 fall 514 carry 513 meet 502 write 499 grow 497 bear 495 sit 486 begin 469 remain 466 set Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7192 not 3413 so 2951 great 2654 more 2650 very 2223 most 2201 up 2077 other 2062 here 2030 irish 2008 old 1952 little 1931 many 1872 only 1814 out 1790 well 1786 then 1701 good 1657 now 1537 long 1470 as 1464 much 1396 there 1371 down 1146 first 1061 still 1020 never 992 high 989 large 985 far 952 beautiful 947 own 928 last 927 few 927 even 898 away 894 back 868 such 860 ever 829 same 811 just 808 fine 779 almost 766 too 762 also 762 again 755 all 751 ancient 728 off 712 small Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 505 most 391 good 295 least 215 great 149 fine 121 high 105 large 76 old 70 Most 63 bad 52 early 42 near 32 lovely 29 wild 29 rich 28 late 26 eld 25 strong 24 low 20 poor 20 fair 19 young 19 grand 19 deep 19 big 18 bright 16 long 15 slight 14 noble 14 able 13 strange 13 small 11 true 10 pure 10 dark 9 wide 9 simple 8 pleasant 8 handsome 8 full 8 brave 7 happy 7 green 7 dr 6 mean 6 choice 6 busy 5 wealthy 5 tall 5 sure Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1718 most 71 well 49 least 2 finest 1 strangest 1 smartest 1 shortest 1 quick 1 long 1 hard 1 greatest 1 goethe 1 crest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.archive.org 1 digital.library.villanova.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.archive.org/details/charmofireland00stevuoft 1 http://digital.library.villanova.edu/) Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 _ is _ 11 one does not 7 _ did _ 6 day was fine 6 ireland are not 6 people are very 6 people do not 5 country is so 5 day was so 5 ireland has ever 5 ireland is not 4 _ was _ 4 ireland are so 4 ireland is more 4 ireland is so 4 man came down 4 man came in 4 man came up 4 one does n''t 4 one is not 3 church is still 3 dublin has not 3 ireland had not 3 ireland is now 3 land is so 3 man went down 3 one has ever 3 people are not 3 people are so 3 people were not 3 place is now 3 place was not 2 _ does _ 2 church was not 2 day being sunday 2 day is fine 2 day was very 2 days were over 2 dublin is not 2 hill is so 2 hill looking down 2 house is also 2 houses are rather 2 ireland are almost 2 ireland are as 2 ireland are more 2 ireland are now 2 ireland do not 2 ireland does n''t 2 ireland does not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 ireland is not as 1 church is not fully 1 church was not less 1 church was not long 1 country does not fairly 1 country shows no signs 1 country was not utterly 1 day holds no exception 1 day is not over 1 day sees no sign 1 day show no signs 1 days are not much 1 days has not yet 1 dublin has no advantages 1 dublin is not very 1 house had no licence 1 house is no place 1 house is not comfortable 1 houses do not always 1 ireland are not as 1 ireland are not better 1 ireland are not good 1 ireland are not only 1 ireland had no wyclif 1 ireland has no better 1 ireland has no commission 1 ireland has no distinctive 1 ireland has no steamers 1 ireland is not only 1 ireland is not unprecedented 1 ireland was not slow 1 ireland were not only 1 land is not now 1 land is not that 1 life is not so 1 life seemed not so 1 man has no use 1 man pays no sort 1 man was not at 1 men have no permanent 1 men were not only 1 mountains is not so 1 mountains were not incapable 1 one gets no harm 1 one has no desire 1 one has no landing 1 one is no stronger 1 one is not surprised 1 people are not able 1 people had no reason Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 170578 43921 166847 35529 107832 6599 90213 14511 85753 39500 78527 44066 75043 12078 72721 14510 58321 48379 54042 10588 53230 9503 50559 4381 46901 22387 40366 46439 38534 46429 26476 46654 26132 40465 19881 43623 14841 43096 14693 43488 14574 42958 14275 44046 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 84.0 40465 84.0 4381 83.0 48379 81.0 6599 80.0 44066 79.0 43623 77.0 35529 76.0 46439 74.0 22387 74.0 46654 74.0 39500 73.0 46429 73.0 12078 73.0 42958 73.0 9503 73.0 14511 72.0 43488 72.0 43096 72.0 10588 70.0 44046 69.0 43921 67.0 14510 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10588 The great wall mass and dome of St. Paul''s, the roof and towers of Westminster Abbey, unlike the lone spire of churches in London, being, next to Canterbury Cathedral, the great burial buildings near are old and irregular, and at low tide a great deal of the Standing on Tower Hill, looking down on the dark lines of wall--picking The picturesque old brick gateway of St. James''s Palace still looks up St. James''s Street, one of the most precious relics of the past in London, and of it remains, and a banking house stands now on the site of the old Devil kings and great church dignitaries from foreign lands came with gifts. LIVING IN GREAT HOUSES [Footnote: From "England Without and Within." By church; tower of the time of Edward III.; some fine old monuments. place, I looked down the old gray walls into the amber waters of the Avon, 12078 dominated by the hill of Rudraige, named in honor of a hero of old days; cromlech within a great stone circle like that on Slieve-na-griddle in thousand years, and we shall have, for this great stone circle, an Ireland the tall, dark race often follows the sea, showing the same things; but the men of old, like many of our simpler races now, looked The De Danaans came from the north; from what land, we shall presently At that same time came Concobar with a thousand men to the fort of the hero, came the great and wonderful time of Find the son of Cumal, When the life of the natural man is perfected, the time comes to strike to Ireland--a word of new life to the warriors and chieftains, This great soul departed from earthly life in the year 525, a generation Ireland, life in, two thousand years ago, 177, 178, 179, 180 14510 Old Middle State type of American-Irish Protestant, 39 into the domestic affairs of Great Britain and Ireland as did Mr. Gladstone into the domestic affairs of the United States when, speaking any theory of government in Ireland, I took things great and small, and for them, not in Ireland, but in America, not to Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone primarily, but to Mr. Davitt and Mr. Henry George. The year 1878 saw the "Home Rule" movement in Irish politics brought to all-fours with the policy of the Irish Land League established by Mr. Davitt, and accepted by Mr. Parnell. leader in Ireland of the Irish revolutionary movement, Mr. Davitt, came political party in Ireland, in Great Britain, or in the United States, "Well, Father M''Fadden was a good man; he was a friend of the people; between "the American people" and "the Irish nation in America." 14511 The tenant to be evicted, James Griffin, is the son and heir of one Mrs. Griffin, who on the 5th of April 1854 took a lease of the lands known as now held by Sir West Ridgway, seeing this alarming deadlock, urged Mr. Head to go further, and offer to take a half-year''s rent and costs. eviction, he gravely offered to pay £8 of the current half-year''s rent Ireland in the year of our Lord 1888, to eject a tenant who owes two As to the recent evictions which had taken place, Father Keller said rule," he said to me, "in dealing with Irish tenants, and that is As to the sale of tenant-right in Ireland, he told me a curious story. "Among the tenants evicted at that time many had not paid rents Irish tenant in those evil days), I was asked to go into the house. 22387 variety of fine wood, which rises on varied slopes, in some parts gentle, degree; great projections of hill, with glens behind all wooded, have a masses of mountain, covered with wood, forming a vale scattered with mountain, closing, form one great amphitheatre of wood, from the top of glen near a mile long, come presently to one of the finest ranges of wood of a mile, the road passing through the wood leads to another point of Passing to the right, fresh scenes of wood appear; half-way in a varied manner; and these hills command very fine views of the great any house, you come in view of a vale, quite filled with fine woods, very fine rising hill cut into inclosures but without wood, land-locked hill and wood: here the shore rises gradually into large inclosures, rock and mountain that surround them unite to form a noble view. 35529 said the lights of the Irish coast could be seen ahead, and we went out known as Ireland''s Eye, and far away beyond the long stretch of low wells; but, like most Irish churches, it was in ruins most of the time, hopeless, half-crazed men and women said good-bye to Ireland forever and time in a place so bare of comfort, and I looked at the old woman, who "It''s like this, sir," he said, finally, "in our small place, it''s the looked at the Irish homespun, and spent a little time at an I intended going to Adare, a little town not far away, said to possess a "Then, by God, this man shall rule all Ireland!" said the King, and left, and then the road turned away between high stone walls--only these the ruins of the old abbey, a little way down the river, and walked out 39500 interesting as Irish scenery is generally beautiful, few places are the history of ancient Ireland, and nothing of the Irish language or its Tara the great political centre of ancient Ireland--The Third most historic hill in Ireland--Beauty of the view other parts of Ireland may have fared in ancient times, the people of neither in Ireland, Great Britain, or in any northern country, were stone Rathcroghan, was one of the great burial places of the Pagan Irish Kings. monasteries, and of Ireland in general in ancient times, it may not be out appeared about it some twenty years ago in the _Irish Times_ of Dublin, still known in Irish, is one of the most ancient towns in Ireland. There are few parts of Ireland more beautiful than the country round the Irish captured and plundered Dublin a great many times, but do not appear 40465 time from the good man''s wife, cordially asking that we all come and weather as this?" "Sure, every day is like this," said he with We have seen many pretty women here in Ireland, but in her day this "Oh, thank you, sir," said the boy, evidently thinking the tip far too saw the old man standing in the doorway of a temperance hotel talking Once upon a time (said my friend) a man was out walking by the edge he looked at it and said, "Sure, you''re too rich a man to be contint In Ireland the sun takes on Irish ways, and is just a little dilatory. But before eight the good father came and asked me if I''d like to see "Sure ''tis little I have," said she, with a smile that took five years But there came by a man who said: 42958 four sea-bordering counties only, Donegal, Derry, Antrim, and Down, [Illustration: NARROW WATER CASTLE, CARLINGFORD LOUGH] Just beyond Cave Hill, on the north shore of the lough, is A line of high hills, or low mountains, runs north from Yet after his day another O''Neill, Hugh the great Earl of Tyrone, of sea loughs which make the distinctive beauty of Donegal. Donegal has become to-day the best pleasure ground in Ireland. hotels west of Lough Swilly, Lord George Hill''s at Gweedore, and Mr. Connolly''s at Carrick. And in truth in the old days a Donegal peasant hardly [Illustration: TORY ISLAND FROM FALCARRAGH HILL, DONEGAL] But, as things stand, the man who wants good fishing is more likely to light railway which runs from Donegal town along the north shore brought up in--Donegal of more inhabited and habitable shores by Lough have seen and known Lough Swilly and its shores, and the people who 43096 Leinster is the richest of Irish provinces, the heart of Ireland, and Sea and mountain, plain and river, all come This mountain range, trending south and a little west from Dublin, is north and west, your eye can travel till it reaches far into Ulster For the artistic life of Ireland--past, present, and to come--Dublin Beauty of this kind stretches away from Dublin north and west over the mountain, the Dublin hills looming up to the south; it has foregrounds stream which divides Dublin would guess at the beautiful water which Mountains behind it, and finally of Dublin itself, lying between beauty west, past this mountain mass, Ireland stretches broad and fertile, I come now to deal with what lies south of Dublin--the Wicklow Hills Dublin Bay till he landed again for water and provisions at the little fertility; it is also the province of great and beautiful rivers. 43488 fished one afternoon with an old man in a lake in the mountains behind Oranmore an old castle rises by the inner shallow waters of Galway Bay, stretch of oyster-breeding water which these counties know: Galway Bay All the north shore of Galway Bay is long, low, and indented with a lough in all Ireland is more beautiful than Killary on its own day. the little steamer from Galway to Cong--a run of some thirty miles, Mask from the main water, you soon come out on the shore of the lake, But St. Fechin belongs to the old days of the seventh century, long before any level of Lough Corrib, till you near Galway, when it rises over low rises from its west shore, a magnificent mountain; and the whole place is well worth seeing, and the best way to see it is to fish a day on 43623 influenced the Anglo-Irish till they are as far away from the English some few things about Ireland besides the picturesqueness of the Irish there is ten times the noise in an Irish street, apart from mere Accustomed to Irish ways, English villages have always appeared very sit on God''s right hand and judge the Irish people." "That you can''t stand to most English people for the Irish, have had grafted on to them miles from Dublin before you get into Irish Ireland. many Irish in Anglo-Ireland, usually in the humbler walks of life, Get into Irish Ireland and the manners have a graciousness which is like Irish will have a long way to travel before they touch with the French. saved Ireland for the English Crown, were alike men of Anglo-Irish Galway is so synonymous with racy Irish life that a peep at Ireland must Indeed, Irish people coming to live in England often blunder into 4381 A little after midday when I was coming back one old half-blind man That night it died, and ''Believe me,'' said the old man, ''the fairies This evening an old man came to see me, and said he had known a Later in the day, as the old man talked continually of the fairies She told her dream in the morning, and an old man said When it came in from the sea the young man went down before it, and old men who were talking Irish, and a young man who had been a The old man went on telling of his experiences at sea and the places Then word went round that an old man, known as Little ''Some men from the south island,'' he said, ''came over and bought I am in the south island again, and I have come upon some old men 43921 The Bank of Ireland, Old Parliament House, Dublin 80 central Ireland, near Tara, the ancient capital, in a church that long large place in the life of Dublin during the thirty years that he was government of Ireland entirely into the hands of the people with the of an Italian artist who came to Ireland fifty years ago to engage in Ireland into small farms and homes for the people who are now working towns of northern Ireland the laws prohibit children under eleven years Ireland, a few from Irish families in England, a few more from Religion is a live thing in Ireland, and the Roman Catholic churches are Cork, Dublin, and later in every city and town in Ireland. to Ireland, twenty-eight years old, as a captain in the command of Lord Raleigh was twenty-eight years old when he came to Ireland from 44046 wide plain watered by the three great rivers which meet in Waterford a sail up the beautiful haven and the "pleasant waters of the river hour, on to the steep left bank of the river Suir facing Waterford The south coast of Cork, from Youghal to the Kenmare River, is the Bantry, and the Kenmare River, whose northern shore belongs to Kerry, west on the north shore of Bantry Bay, I have seen, and the Castle south of the Kenmare River, like the O''Connells on its northern shore, the neck, sea, river, and tilled land all disappear: nothing is seen the best free river fishing that I know in Ireland--absolutely an Irish saints--St. Brendan, the Navigator, who was born a little west faith--"over half the south of Ireland, mountain and valley, lake and "Men come and go by this great river," she wrote, "and the 44066 kings of Ireland, who every third year met here in great convention. Now the tall "yellow steeple" of the Abbey of St. Mary''s, founded by St. Patrick, and close into the town the great Castle good we have many a rush in the motor-cars,--one to an old ruin where return to the places where they lived so long through days of sorrow and It is a glorious day as we pass upward to the hill and the old town and stated, it''s a sociable old place and I spend some time in its company, whole I like the car very much, and though two years old and having had by,--days which seem so long gone by, though but a few years have passed Of the thousands who come this way to-day, few give thought to the house So there is no time for dead Earls and ruined houses on such a day, and 46429 of Ireland least known to the great mass of tourists. Irish literature were cultivated, as Ireland is known by tradition to be Ireland''s four great divisions--from perhaps the fifth century until the The last few years have seen in Ireland a great activity in the building that a great tide of tourist travel will turn toward Ireland, and that, one who knows anything of Ireland and the present-day aspect and Of the actual life of the times, the present-day Irish novelist draws into which writers divide the Irish, there is another class in Ireland, The Ireland with which the present-day traveller has most to do is the Ireland, made at various times by the several petty kings and chiefs who between Great Britain and Ireland--into a day of mutual understanding, The history of church-bells in Ireland is of great moment, in that they the first forty years of his life in Ireland, founding churches and 46439 third city of Ireland," Cork (Corcaig, "a marshy place"), are Even the present-day aspect of Cork Harbour and the estuary of the river the sea, called Bantry Bay, Kenmare River, and Dingle Bay. Farther north is the ample estuary of the river Shannon and Galway Bay, many rocky islands of its harbour and come to a view of Brow Head, with its castle, the upper, middle, and lower lakes, Purple Mountain, Black Ross Castle, like Muckross Abbey, is one of Killarney''s chief "Another city so ancient as Galway does not exist in Ireland," says an In ancient times Galway was the most famous port in Ireland, and had a Galway is full of memorials of its ancient days of commercial greatness, land of lake and island, forest, hill, and sea that had been hers so ancient towns in the island, being famed even in Irish bardic The great attraction is Carlingford Castle, one of King John''s Irish 46654 The steamer soon sighted Tory Island, rapidly passed Malin Head, and [Illustration: CARNISK BRIDGE AND SALMON-LEAP (IN LOW WATER), NEAR twenty miles of driving up round the head of the bay, by crossing, if On the way over the bridge we passed Horn Head House, the residence the rocks on the east coast of the island are called "Balor''s Castle" to Bloody Foreland, a head one thousand and fifty feet high, so called is a long arm of the sea, surrounded by high, bold mountains, clothed The island contains the cathedral cliffs of Menawn, one thousand feet [Illustration: CATHEDRAL CLIFFS AT MENAWN, ACHILL ISLAND (1000 feet [Illustration: BOYS FISHING, NEAR RECESS, COUNTY GALWAY] arrival, and, having finished it, we took the only car on the island The island thus formed commences about one mile above the town, is a long period the English held the place against the Irish, living in a 48379 "Is my father indeed here?" said the little girl, at once forgetting the dark, dirty room, a beautiful little boy of about five years old Mother Bopp cried, "Walter!" and the boy hastened to her side. Walter tried anxiously to cover his treasure with his little hands; "Dear, good, kind Maggie, thank you, thank you!" said the child, while right size for his little hand, and he could soon play several dances Poor little Walter was soon driven from the heaven which the praise upon the fragile little man whom he loved, and who had never said an So the little man said." His voice grew more cheerful, and, "I really pity you, poor little fellow!" said the man, while he held "This is your own little room, my boy," said Christina. around the old man''s neck, said: "My dear, my good grandfather! 6599 "The estate passed into the hands of a good man who lived on it, and he THE HILLS OF LOUGH SWILLY--TENANTS'' IMPROVEMENTS--A MAN-OF-WAR AND MEN people told me, he visited the farm-houses in person, pulled open the lonesome-looking man, enlivened our way by remarks like these: "This was as a man paid the rent value of the land as he got it, the improvement will build a house upon the place." He took L100 of the five years'' rent landlord looks at the present letting value of the land and raises the On my way there I went up a little hill to look at a picturesque ruin, a new man would give a great price for an old place. of land in one place at a rent of L7 5s, where his house stood; one As we went along, men working at building a stone wall, looked at 9503 come the great master of romance who came here to live and die will be a great poet of the critical and didactic kind, and his house and place be said that Palladian edifices like Queen''s, or the new buildings of high walls, and its entrance is by a ponderous old tower, having a fashioned like the old, so far as regards the walk running through its The light was placed about 72 feet above high water, and High School, and the towers and courts of the new Jail--a large place, coming to the house of Melrose." From this cause the old tower of BURNS''S LAND [Footnote: From "Our Old Home." Published by Houghton, two-story house, built of stone, and whitewashed, like its neighbors, a two-story, red-stone, thatched house, looking old, but by no means houses look as if they had seen better days. placed between two strong round towers from Castle Street, the westward