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 Turkish, Udmurt, and Ukrainian. Turkish Turkish is the […]
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 1973. 1973 – “Je vais me marier, Marie” In 1973, when the Contest was held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Patrick Juvet represented Switzerland […]
This year at the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Ireland will be marking 60 years since their first participation. Today we continue with 1965. 1971 – “One Day Love” In 1971, when the Contest was held in Dublin, Ireland, Angela Farrell represented Ireland with “One Day Love”. […]
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 22nd: Saturday 22nd March 1986 On this day in 1986, the 26th edition of Melodifestivalen took place in Stockholm. Lasse […]
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. The Netherlands rank 16th overall – […]
It’s back ! As we are now well into post Eurovision season, we at Eurovision Ireland are continuing our series , Here Today, Gone Tomorrow , where we look at former Eurovision stars and what happened to them following their time representing their country at Eurovision . As […]
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 continue to look back at the second placings. 1975 The Shadows […]
The Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1956 to bring Europe together. These days we are once more surrounded by troubled waters, diseases, floods and wildfires. But once again there must be hope and people can come together to help one another. Our thoughts and prayers go to […]
Unity, the Dutch participants from the 2020 Junior Eurovision Song Contest are back. They have released a Dutch language cover of Teach-In’s Dutch winning entry from the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest, “Ding-A-Dong”. You can listen to the cover version below: Teach-In took victory at the Contest in 1975, […]
Over the last weeks , we at Eurovision Ireland have been taking a look at the fates and fortunes of the many performers and hosts who have graced our beloved contest over the years. Once all that pre-contest preparation was over and the actual contest had taken place […]
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