This year, the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest featured a record breaking twenty languages. Eurovision Ireland will be looking at all the languages that have been performed at the Contest, since 1956, in our latest #AtoZ. Today, we continue the series with Pontic Greek, Portuguese and Proto-Slavic. Pontic Greek […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, we will be looking back at Switzerland since their first participation. Today we begin with 1956. 1961 – “Nous aurons demain” In 1961, when the Contest was held in Cannes, France, Franca di Rienzo represented Switzerland with “Nous […]
Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are taking a historical look back on our favourite Contests past and present, on the very day they took place. Today it’s March 21st: Saturday 21st March 1970 On this day in 1970, the 15th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place […]
Today, the 2024 Summer Olympics continue and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. We will be celebrating the best of Eurovision participating countries, ranked by their gold medal success at the Summer Olympics, up to and including Tokyo 2020. Italy rank 6th overall – 217 […]
Today, the 2024 Tour de France commenced and we have added a Eurovision twist to the proceedings. During the Tour, we will be looking at the Italian and French winning entries of the Contest. Today is stage three, with the tour continuing in the Italian city of Piacenza. […]
We are coming to the end of another year and sadly, as is inevitable , there are a few of our past Eurovision stars who passed away this year.We at Eurovision Ireland felt that we would like to honour and remember some of the past stars of the […]
During the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Sam Ryder secured the United Kingdom a record sixteenth second placing. The last time the United Kingdom reached this position was in 1998, one year after their last victory. Today we start to look back at the second placings. 1959 Pearl Carr […]
Rare footage of Gigliola Cinquetti been crowned the winner of the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, has been unearthed in the archives of YLE, the Finnish national broadcaster. The footage shows the crowning of Gigliola Cinquetti and a small portion of her reprise of “Non ho l’età”. Let us […]
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