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Irish Riverdance
Riverdance displays modern Irish culture while it is based on an old, influential culture with a love of
complicated stories and poetic styles and prevailing from the 6^th century to the 9^th century.
ⅠThe development of Riverdance
1) With (1) ______ starting in the 9^th century this ever-influential culture (1) ______
declined and never recovered indeed. The traditional love of story and song
existed in a form the peasants liked and without a distinctive Irish style till
the (2) ______ beginning at the end of the 19^th century. (2) ______
2) The Irish love of music has succeeded in surviving the change from Irish,
(3) ______ to the language of the invader and has once more begun to blos (3) ______
som and become influential outside the country.
3) Irish music was reduced to being the language used in the countryside and
(4) ______ as people moved to the cities, for young city people didn’t like (4) ______
"peasant music". However, this has begun to change and since the 1980’ s
has taken off. Many top singers in the world are Irish and quite a number of
people are working for the music industry in Ireland. Riverdance is an ex-
pression of that (5) ______ and that ability to understand the new. (5) ______
Ⅱ Riverdance is also a kind of (6) ______ interesting pop song. (6) ______
1) It uses song and dance to tell the story of a people whose spirit the Great
Famine broke. As a result of this famine, two million people died or left
Ireland by 1851 and (7) ______ continued to decrease until 1961. (7) ______
2) People with ideas left for (8) ______ The Irish in Ireland became hopeless (8) ______
and unconfident and much of its modem culture is about the sadness of that
time and the sorrow of saying goodbye to those who left. There is (9) ______ (9) ______
for this saying goodbye--"American Wake".
3) The leaving didn’t cease until the 1970’ s because Independence in 1921 was
followed by a civil war and an economic depression. Now it is common to
see along (10) ______ from that time falling into ruin. (10) ______