New Ireland
For all of its affectations, New Ireland remains a strangely closeted place. This is a country that, in the space of one generation, has swopped nationalism for globalism, Catholicism for consumerism and conservatism for liberalism. A characteristic underpinning both old and new Ireland is a remarkable tendency towards consensus and groupthink. Today, this is evident in politics and even within the media. Ireland's 2008 catastrophic financial and banking collapse is testimony to this troubling groupthink. New Ireland is an exploration of the social, political and cultural themes of a new 21st century Ireland.
