Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969

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Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 - Wikipedia

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Eurovision Song Contest 1969

Participating broadcaster

Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)

Country

Ireland

National selection

Selection process

National final - juries

Selection date(s)

16 February 1969

Selected artist(s)

Muriel Day and the Lindsays

Selected song

"The Wages of Love"

Selected songwriter(s)

Michael Reade

Finals performance

Final result

7th, 10 points

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Ireland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 with the song "The Wages of Love", written by Michael Reade, and performed by Muriel Day and the Lindsays. The Irish participating broadcaster, Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), selected its entry through a national final, which was won by "The Wages of Love" performed by Muriel Day. Joined by the Lindsays, the song finished 7th place with 10 points in Eurovision.^[1]

Before Eurovision

National Song Contest

Competing Entries

RTÉ opened a submission period for composers to submit songs between 6 November 1968 and 1 January 1969. Composers had to be Irish-born or live in Ireland and could only submit a maximum of two songs each.^[2] RTÉ received 560 submissions and selected 8 songs from the received submissions and then assigned artists to those songs.^[3]^[4]

Final

The fifth National Song Contest was held on Sunday 16 February 1969 from the RTÉ studios in Dublin and was broadcast on RTÉ Television, and hosted by Brendan O'Reilly. The winning song was decided by 10 regional juries throughout Ireland.^[5]

The fifth National Song Contest is notable for featuring all four of Ireland's previous representatives (Butch Moore, Dickie Rock, Sean Dunphy, and Pat McGeegan), as well as the 1969 representative (Muriel Day) and the future 1970 representative (Dana).

Final - 16 February 1969
Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Points	Place
1	Sean Dunphy	"Paper Boats"	Audrey Meredith	3	5
2	Dana	"Look Around"	Michael Reade	8	2
3	Butch Moore	"Too Late"	Joe Burkett, Andy Galligan	2	8
4	Muriel Day	"The Wages of Love"	Michael Reade	30	1
5	Dickie Rock	"Now Do You Believe Me?"	Jim Doherty	6	3
6	Eleanor Nodwell	"Talking to Myself"	Frank Dunne, Dolores Rockett	3	5
7	Pat McGeegan	"Johnny Dreamer"	George Meredith, Audrey Meredith	5	4
8	Fiorenza Viani-Nolan	"1959"	Jim Doherty	3	5

At Eurovision

Muriel Day and the Lindsays performed 5th at the beginning of the startfield and finished 7th with 10 points.

Voting

Points awarded to Ireland^[6]
Score	Country
3 points	Finland Switzerland
1 point	Germany Netherlands Sweden United Kingdom

Points awarded by Ireland^[6]
Score	Country
4 points	France
3 points	Switzerland
1 point	Finland Italy Spain

References

^ "Muriel Day and the Lindsays - Ireland - Madrid 1969 - Eurovision Song Contest". EBU. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020.
^ "Fifth National Song Contest". The Irish Times. 6 November 1968. p. 10.
^ "Ex-Winners For Song Contest". The Irish Times. 5 December 1968. p. 9.
^ "Eight songs for national contest". The Irish Times. 30 January 1969. p. 18.
^ "IRISH NATIONAL FINAL 1969". Geocities.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009.
^ ^a ^b "Results of the Final of Madrid 1969". Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original on 8 April 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.

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Eurosong You're a Star Discography
Participation	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Bambie Thug Black Daisy Brooke Nicky Byrne Can-linn Maria Christian Kiev Connolly Dana Muriel Day Dervish Ryan Dolan Donna and Joe Chris Doran Cathal Dunne Sean Dunphy The Duskeys Dustin the Turkey Angela Farrell Eddie Friel Paul Harrington Mickey Harte Red Hurley Kim Jackson Jedward Sandie Jones Jump the Gun Niamh Kavanagh Brian Kennedy The Lindsays Johnny Logan Luv Bug Dawn Martin Linda Martin Maxi Pat McGeegan Charlie McGettigan Sarah McTernan The Missing Passengers Butch Moore The Mullans Sinéad Mulvey Brendan Murray Gary O'Shaughnessy Ryan O'Shaughnessy Eimear Quinn Liam Reilly Tina Reynolds Marc Roberts Dickie Rock Lesley Roy Sheeba Kasey Smith Molly Sterling The Swarbriggs Eamonn Toal Wild Youth Colm C.T. Wilkinson
Songs	"22" "All Kinds of Everything" "Born to Sing" "Ceol an Ghrá" "Chance of a Lifetime" "Come Back to Stay" "Could It Be That I'm in Love" "Cross Your Heart" "Do I Dream" "Doomsday Blue" "Dreamin'" "Dying to Try" "Et Cetera" "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" "Happy Man" "Heartbeat" "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" "Hold Me Now" "Horoscopes" "If I Could Choose" "If My World Stopped Turning" "In Your Eyes" "Irelande Douze Pointe" "Is Always Over Now?" "It's for You" "It's Nice to Be in Love Again" "Lipstick" "Love?" "Maps" "Millennium of Love" "Mysterious Woman" "One Day Love" "Only Love Survives" "Playing with Numbers" "The Real Me" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Somewhere in Europe" ~~"Story of My Life"~~ "Sunlight" "Take Him Home" "Terminal 3" "That's Rich" "That's What Friends Are For" "They Can't Stop the Spring" "Together" "The Voice" "The Wages of Love" "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" "Walking the Streets in the Rain" "Waterline" "We Are One" "We've Got the World" "What's Another Year" "When" "When You Need Me" "Why Me?" "Without Your Love" "You Can Count On Me"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Ireland did not compete

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Countries	Belgium Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Artists	Frida Boccara Muriel Day Paola del Medico Ivan and 4M Jarkko and Laura Jean Jacques Tommy Körberg Lenny Kuhr Lulu Siw Malmkvist Louis Neefs Simone de Oliveira Romuald Salomé Kirsti Sparboe Iva Zanicchi
Songs	"Bonjour, Bonjour" "Boom Bang-a-Bang" "Catherine" "Desfolhada portuguesa" "Due grosse lacrime bianche" "Jennifer Jennings" "Un jour, un enfant" "Judy, min vän" "Kuin silloin ennen" "Maman, maman" "Oj, oj, oj, så glad jeg skal bli" "Pozdrav svijetu" "Primaballerina" "De troubadour" "Vivo cantando" "The Wages of Love"