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Public commemoration and performance are closely bound up with time, place and social arenas, the memorialization of the past serving a variety of goals. This article considers the memorialization of the experience of the famine that blighted Ireland and northern Scotland during the Victorian period, and focuses on Glasgow, one of Scotland's major cities and the destination of many famine migrants. It explores the instrumental use of the famine past in the public sphere in a city long haunted by the specter of sectarianism and considers the impact of the choices made by different collectives in the process of heritage making and remembrance of uncomfortable/difficult aspects of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses three essays that explore the movement and translation of genres in the context of Victorian studies. The first essay by Amy E. Martin examines how Irish nationalist newspapers used gothic tropes to construct an image of the colonized world as an extralegal laboratory of power. The second essay by Cara Murray focuses on colonial sanitation reports in mid-century Bombay, highlighting how they enforced the logic of urban development without considering local geography and cultural practices. The third essay by Olivia Lingyi Xu discusses the popularity of Chinese translations of English novels at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasizing the role of translation in shaping the novel as a global genre. Overall, these essays offer new perspectives on the limitations and complexities of Victorian studies and highlight the value of literary studies in understanding the past. [Extracted from the article]

"The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis" by Charles Read and "Dublin and the Great Irish Famine" edited by Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, Ciarán McCabe, and Ciarán Reilly are two books that explore the Great Famine in Ireland. The Famine, also known as An Gorta Mór or the Irish potato famine, occurred between 1845 and the early 1850s and resulted in the loss of around two million lives and a significant decline in Ireland's population. The books examine the economic and political factors that contributed to the Famine, including the British government's response and the impact on Dublin. They also discuss the cultural memory and legacy of the Famine. These books provide valuable insights into this devastating event and its lasting effects on Ireland. [Extracted from the article]

The National Day of Fast and Humiliation, observed in 1847 on the occasion of the Irish Famine, highlights the contested nature of Victorian conceptions of the public. Fast days are interesting in part because they produced a vast amount of literature: sermons, poems, newspaper articles, and essays. Fictional narratives like Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the Witch (1859) and historical narratives like Charles Trevelyan's The Irish Crisis (1848) even use fast days to achieve narrative resolution. I argue that although fast-day literature works to foster public unity during times of heightened social divisions, it ultimately distinguishes between publics and populations: groups of people who find expression through the state and groups of people who are managed by the state. I suggest that Trevelyan's The Irish Crisis reveals the inherent violence of this distinction. Through his representation of the fast day, Trevelyan works to integrate Ireland into a British public in order to justify the devastating population loss of the Famine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]