How Shackleton and his crew of Irish, English, and Scots worked together was a million miles away from the events taking place at the same time in Dublin 1916, writes Patrick G O’Shea of the University of Maryland

Every year when Leaving Cert results are released there’s a flurry of excitement and weeks of stress and nail biting until students eventually manage to get onto the courses they have their hearts set on (or their parents have!)