Shanna May Breen EVER PRESENT IN our skies, high above our heads, waddling at our feet, bathing in our city rivers – you will see them. Their grockling and their squabbling over scraps of food, a constant soundscape to our capital city, Dublin: gulls.My imagination always tended to look outwards at nature to draw creation from. My childhood Playdough sculpted trees developed into teenage poems about meadows, which transitioned into my adult career as a climate artist.
I found records suggesting that the gulls set up house in Dublin city in the early 1970s. They were merely tourists before that, floating in above fishing trawlers and hunting the day’s catch that had already been hunted. This commute inland allowed them to understand the glory and messy access of the city, at a time when their natural habitat was deteriorating.
So far, I have been amazed by how little I knew about the millennial history of the Irish landscape and the long evolution of the Irish gull. Little things surprise me each day, such as gulls can live for 20 years or more. That could mean that floating around our capital city’s rainy sky are third-generation Dublin city gulls. Wow. I also discovered that gulls sound different from place to place. Or that the gulls were once believed to be the souls of sailors lost at sea or witches.
Last night I was out for dinner with a group of friends and I shared these thoughts. They listened but at a certain point they said: “I still hate them, Shanna, they wake me up at 4 am every morning”, and I do understand this.
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