Heather Laird is a lecturer in English at University College Cork. Her research interests include theories and practices of resistance, particularly as they relate to land usage; critical/radical historical frameworks; and Irish culture since the early nineteenth century. She is the author of Subversive law in Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2005) and Commemoration (Cork University Press, 2018), and an editor of Síreacht: Longings for Another Ireland.