Irish historian explains why he didn't take history for his Leaving Cert

As a documentary on Eamon de Valera’s time in America airs, historian and author Ryle Dwyer looks at how history is taught here — and explains why he did not take the subject for his Leaving Cert.

Although born of American parents in the US, I was reared from the age of four in Ireland, and I received all my primary and secondary education in Tralee, Co Kerry.