Jennifer Horgan: Complexity is the natural state of things — we should embrace it

My column last week prompted a febrile response online. Apparently, by questioning ‘angry’ men, I’d betrayed the people who lost their lives securing my freedom

Cumann na mBan with William T Cosgrave and members of the free state government on the Cork Courthouse steps in August 1923. Picture courtesy of the Cork Public Museum

“No, I’m going to Fota,” I tell the man at Kent station shepherding stragglers towards the Dublin train. I’m going to Fota, not Dublin, not rushing to a conference or talk. 

I’m heading into the green, into chirping birds, roaring Howler monkeys in trees. Into a circle of women, a writing workshop with poet Lani O’Hanlon. Sometime later, our heads dip as we write beneath gilded frames, ornately plastered ceilings.