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Keith Woods discusses Ireland's enthusiasm for neo-liberalism in the video below:

He argues that the colonial legacy left a society that lacked confidence and thus is always attempting to define itself by outside criteria; first the English, then Catholicism, and now multiculturalism.

Angela Nagle makes a similar argument in her article: