Caroline O'Donoghue: The SHARE hut, the Gingerbread House, Freakscene - 14 things I miss about my Cork

"It was the kind of long, slow, teenage mooching that seems to exist in a different time zone."

Paul Street: where Cork goth culture and all of its offshoots lived and died for many years. Pic: Denis Scanell.

I was born in Cork, but I don’t think you’re really ‘from’ anywhere for the first twelve years of your life. Life is a series of being driven places and being picked up from three hours later.

You might, in the scope of a Cork childhood, be blessed with the odd day trip to Inchydoney or Gougane Barra, but your sense of these places as fundamentally ‘Cork’ destinations does not come until years later.