subject-ireland-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 365 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,918,863 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 7,996 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 85. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

ireland, shall, lord, will, one, king, english, may, england, god, great, time, text, made, men, many, irish, sir, now, first, yet, good, us, much, day, parliament, kingdom, tcp, two, mr, without, people, make, dublin, might, well, sent, man, also, part, say, therefore, though, majesties, county, came, law, every, majesty, army

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A relation of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion in the county of Cavan within the province of Ulster in Ireland, from the 23. of October, 1641. untill the 15. of June, 1642. Whereof hitherto nothing hath been reported. Whereunto is added, the acts, and twenty nine conclusions of that great and generall congregation of archbishops, bishops, and others, all of the Romish clergy in Ireland, met in the city of Kilkenny in that kingdom, on the 10 11 and 13 of May, 1642. Concerning the present state of the warre in Ireland; and for the ordering of matters appertaining to the same, both there, and by negotiation with forraign princes. Written, set forth, and presented to the most honourable the Houses of Parliament, by Henry Iones, D.D. There is also added a letter written from Dublin, August 4. 1642. containing some late and very remarkable passages in Ireland., Tvvo histories of Ireland. The one written by Edmund Campion, the other by Meredith Hanmer Dr of Divinity, and The history of the execrable Irish rebellion trac''d from many preceding acts to the grand eruption the 23 of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

early english, english books, books online, lord lieutenant, page images, creation partnership, text creation, lord deputy, king james, image sets, represented either, characters represented, tcp schema, image set, online text, lords justices, tiff page, pfs batch, providing financial, encoded text, proquest page, images scanned, xml conversion, markup reviewed, batch review, institutions providing, work described, bit group, financial support, iv tiff, tcp assigned, encoded edition, text transcribed, without asking, creative commons, asking permission, commercial purposes, textual changes, sir william, mona logarbo, per annum, created baronet, early works, will never, sir charles, gap elements, sir richard, defects per, sir thomas, king henry

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A letter from the right honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal. In answer to His Grace the Duke of Ormond''s letter of November the 12th. 1681. About His Lordships observations and reflections upon the Earl of Castle-Haven''s memoires concerning the rebellion of Ireland. A copy of Coll. Wosely''s letter, to His Grace Duke Schonberg, and The declaration of William and Mary, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, to all their loving subjects in the kingdom of Ireland..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, ireland, lord, english, majesties, irish, parliament, kingdom, lieutenant, king, england, army, majesty, sir, god, castle, rebels, county, religion, dublin, church, act, protestants, people, kingdome, house, law, nation, land, council, town, men, laws, government, general, earl, court, commons, london, enemy, early, earle, country, confederate, city, trade, officers, mr., man, john

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be ireland, and Whereas Robert Robinson late of Clanculgg, in the county of Fermanagh, yeoman, John Irwin alias John Irwin Powshane of the same in the same county yeoman, Archibald Noble junior late of Lisnaskea in the same county yeoman, [and 19 others] have of late committed several burglaries, roberies and stealths, in several parts within this kingdom, besides divers other outrages ... by the Lord Deputy and Council, Arran. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

1. text - A catalogue of the nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland With an addition of the baronets of England, the dates of their patents, the seuerall creations of the knights of the Bath, from the coronation of King Iames, to this present. Collected by T.W.
2. ireland - A discouerie of the true causes why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued, nor brought vnder obedience of the crowne of England, vntill the beginning of his Maiesties happie raigne
3. shall - A relation of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion in the county of Cavan within the province of Ulster in Ireland, from the 23. of October, 1641. untill the 15. of June, 1642. Whereof hitherto nothing hath been reported. Whereunto is added, the acts, and twenty nine conclusions of that great and generall congregation of archbishops, bishops, and others, all of the Romish clergy in Ireland, met in the city of Kilkenny in that kingdom, on the 10 11 and 13 of May, 1642. Concerning the present state of the warre in Ireland; and for the ordering of matters appertaining to the same, both there, and by negotiation with forraign princes. Written, set forth, and presented to the most honourable the Houses of Parliament, by Henry Iones, D.D. There is also added a letter written from Dublin, August 4. 1642. containing some late and very remarkable passages in Ireland.

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

1. ireland, king, england - The history of the Plot, or, A brief and historical account of the charge and defence of Edward Coleman, Esq., William Ireland, Thomas Pickering, John Grove : Robert Greene, Henry Berry
2. shall, god, hath - A relation of the beginnings and proceedings of the rebellion in the county of Cavan within the province of Ulster in Ireland, from the 23. of October, 1641. untill the 15. of June, 1642. Whereof hitherto nothing hath been reported. Whereunto is added, the acts, and twenty nine conclusions of that great and generall congregation of archbishops, bishops, and others, all of the Romish clergy in Ireland, met in the city of Kilkenny in that kingdom, on the 10 11 and 13 of May, 1642. Concerning the present state of the warre in Ireland; and for the ordering of matters appertaining to the same, both there, and by negotiation with forraign princes. Written, set forth, and presented to the most honourable the Houses of Parliament, by Henry Iones, D.D. There is also added a letter written from Dublin, August 4. 1642. containing some late and very remarkable passages in Ireland.
3. lord, said, text - Whereas we the lord lieutenant and Council according to His Majesties pleasure, and commands signified unto us by the lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council of England, by their letters bearing date the twenty sixth day of September last ... by the Lord Lieutenant and Council, Essex.
4. text, english, ireland - A trve relation of the proceedings of the Scottish armie now in Ireland by three letters / the first sent from General Major Monroe to Generall Leslie his excellence ; the second writ by the Major and aldermen of London-Derry to Generall Major Monroe ; the third sent by the Earle of Antrvm to Generall Major Monroe ; which letters were sent by Generall Major Monroe to Generall Leslie his excellence.
5. lord, county, said - An exact description of Ireland chorographically surveying all its provinces & counties ... : with an index of all the provinces, counties, baronies, cities, towns, forts, castles, rivers, lakes, havens, bays, mountains, promontories, &c., in such a manner as may serve for a geographical dictionary for Ireland ... : done according to the latest surveys, and agreeing with all the new maps / by Laurence Eachard ...

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

time, text, men, day, people, part, man, way, others, place, reason, things, thing, persons, end, nothing, power, books, texts, work, p., images, hath, number, kings, xml, works, peace, life, manner, words, page, person, letter, parts, characters, subjects, name, t, money, hands, death, rest, places, image, order, title, none, religion, world

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

be, is, was, have, were, had, are, being, said, been, made, did, do, make, sent, say, having, came, take, come, given, give, taken, see, done, found, put, brought, know, called, according, has, encoded, set, thought, let, left, gave, went, believe, created, am, find, think, took, received, go, bring, heard, based

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

ireland, lord, king, england, god, sir, english, parliament, kingdom, irish, tcp, mr., dublin, majesty, hath, c., majesties, county, army, law, john, lieutenant, protestants, lords, church, rebels, william, council, london, town, castle, henry, text, ●, house, earl, thomas, act, mac, james, earle, thou, commons, 〉, richard, men, government, general, doe, eebo

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, they, their, it, he, them, i, him, we, our, you, your, my, us, themselves, her, me, himself, she, thy, its, thee, theirs, one, ours, ye, yours, mine, ''em, vp, ian, us''d, whereof, severall, itself, em, ''s, hers, ●, vvith, vnto, herself, ourselves, myself, yow, yee, ay, whosoever, thou, hee

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, great, many, same, good, first, own, more, much, true, english, early, several, little, last, whole, most, irish, present, late, second, least, new, able, next, few, better, general, former, full, greater, common, available, best, old, due, small, greatest, long, particular, wicked, large, like, textual, fit, necessary, high, very, ready

not, so, then, now, very, as, there, more, out, also, well, up, most, therefore, never, only, here, yet, much, in, ever, thus, first, thereof, over, away, even, together, too, onely, rather, before, off, about, still, again, further, far, likewise, long, online, down, afterwards, forth, no, otherwise, all, on, indeed, sometimes

Next steps

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