This year’s Leaving Certificate higher-level history paper was very challenging, teachers have said.Stephen Tonge, a history teacher at the Institute of Education, said students would have looked at previous papers to help guide their revision.“This paper lacked some of the staples that many had come to expect: no Anglo-Irish relations, no Eucharistic Congress, no treaty negotiations, no Irish economy,” he said.Tonge said that the examiner plumbed the nooks and niches of the course. “The question of the contribution of Patrick Pearse and/or Countess Markievicz will challenge students to fully contextualise these figures rather than reverting to biography,” he explained. “Topic...
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