In our latest Gateways essay, Tiernan Cannon explores how Lankum's 'The Livelong Day' helped him find a newfound pride in his Irish identity during the early terrors of the pandemic.
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My family’s story is not entirely unusual. The links between Ireland and Great Britain are strong, with a great deal of movement between the islands long having been a feature of our shared history. Yet I, unlike other kids with links to Britain, could never understand myself as truly Irish growing up, even though I fiercely rejected any notion that Ibe English.
I eventually secured a paid job from that internship, and, with the modest salary it afforded me, I rented a small bedroom of my own in a shared house down the road. Things, ostensibly, were on the up, except they didn’t feel that way. Dublin was fast being hollowed out. Beloved bars and cafés were closing all the time. Beautiful, storied buildings housing nightclubs and theaters were knocked to the ground and rebuilt by developers as bland hotels or too-expensive student housing blocks.
I was happy in Greece, happier than I ever had been up until that point, but I was still far removed from everything I’d once known. Lankum captured that sense of disconnect and sang it back to me. On gray, friendless nights, with nowhere to go nor anyone to see, I would put on my headphones and wander through the maze of Athens, listening to the group’s tales and pondering why they made so much sense to me.
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