8 City Wall, Kilkenny Ireland

I lived in Ireland for 8 1/2 years. For most of that time I lived in Kilkenny. For much of that time I lived at an address at the city wall. It was one of eight apartments at the back of a shopping center along the largest remnant of the wall protecting the town's people and commerce from about 1450 CE to the time Cromwell blew a hole out of it.

• Hippie chick flips out, calls the cops, then stays for another month... — March 2003

• 7 City Wall, the mysterious place next door...

• The stone thump of a teetered concrete paving slab and an associated subconscious aversion...

• The son takes over when mother is no longer able to assert her authority...

• I was harrassed for a couple of years by teen boys in the neighborhood....

• Another eviction notice, December 2008...

• The ratio shifted — and men think of cleaning house as womens' work....

• From the nuns to the market to the heritage council; county, city, state — a byzantine pattern of ownership....