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Leaving Cert Music: Irish music in North America

How often Irish music in North America comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Irish music in North America, Higher Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Irish music in North America.

(a)Michael Coleman, who recorded in New York in the 1920s, played which instrument?
  1. Uilleann pipes
  2. Fiddle
  3. Accordion
(b)What effect did 1920s American 78 rpm recordings have on music in Ireland?
  1. They replaced the fiddle with the banjo in most bands
  2. They ended dance music in Ireland within a few years
  3. They spread the Sligo style and set versions of tunes
(c)Irish emigrant music influenced which American styles?
  1. Appalachian, bluegrass and country
  2. Bebop, cool jazz and jazz fusion
  3. Mariachi, salsa and Latin tango
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(a) Fiddle

(b) They spread the Sligo style and set versions of tunes

(c) Appalachian, bluegrass and country

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Irish music in North America.

Higher Level

Asked on 3 of the last 9 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2023.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q5Bi
2022Not asked
2021Q5Biv
2019Not asked
2018Not asked
2017Q5Biv
2016Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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