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.

Students are particularly drawn to content about the Revolutionary period and Civil War in Ireland, with figures like Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera generating significant engagement and ...

1919 – YMCA opens its doors. 1919 – Water in short supply in Butte. 1919 – Butte’s Irish welcome Eamon de Valera. 1919 – U.S. troops guard Butte mines. 1920 – A number of IWW ...