Cork: Perry Street Market Café

Perry Street,

I HAVE been in this building before, and harbour distant memories of an erstwhile, dusty-and-dim carpet showroom. I also vaguely recall a fruitless tramp over musty, secondhand furniture in another of its incarnations.

The haziest memories hark back decades, to when it hosted a scuzzy and stygian nightclub that drew a ragbag nocturnal assortment in search of a final drink or three, only after all other establishments had closed.