"Ceol an Ghrá" was Ireland

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's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972

Eurovision Song Contest 1972

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, performed in Irish

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 by Sandie Jones

Sandie Jones

- Eurovision :She represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972 with the song Ceol an Ghrá . This was the only occasion on which Ireland performed a song in their own language...

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Lyrically, the song is a ballad, with Jones singing about hearing "the music of love" wherever she is. She sings about being in The Land of the Young

Tír na nÓg

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, which may also refer to Ireland itself. During Preview Week, clips from Ireland's National Song Festival were interspersed with new footage of Jones singing on a cliff, walking on a footbridge, standing near the Two Working Men

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, and perhaps most famously, strutting in de rigueur fashions and platform shoes past awestruck Catholic schoolgirls. The video was also notable for short scenes which featured Jones in hot pants, which caused a stir in Ireland at the time.

At the Contest, it was performed third on the night, following France

France

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's Betty Mars

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 with "Comé-comédie" and preceding Spain

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's Jaime Morey

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 with "Amanece

Amanece

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Interestingly, while this was the only occasion on which Ireland performed in its own language. The performance was also the first of only two occasions so far on which a Celtic

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 language has been heard at the Contest, with France

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 entering the Eurovision Song Contest 1996

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 with the Breton language

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 song "Diwanit Bugale

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Original

Éistigí, éistigí, cloisim arís é, ceol an ghrá

'Seo nó ansúid dom, bíonn sé de shíor liom, ceol an ghrá

I lár na cathrach breá, cois abhainn nó ar trá

Cloisim an tiún, is tú mo rún, sin ceol an ghrá

Éistigí, éistigí, cloisim arís é, ceol an ghrá

Canann an t-éinín é, casann an ghaoth dom é, ceol an ghrá

Maidin nó lár an lae, cloisim i gcónaí é

Éist leis an túin, is tú mo rún, sin ceol an ghrá

Seo Tír na nÓg is tá sciatháin in áit mo chos

Anois is go deo tá an sonas romham thall is abhus

Is tú mo chroí de lá is d'oích'

Is gach uile nóiméad de'm' shaol

Éistigí, éistigí, cloisim arís é, ceol an ghrá

'Seo nó ansúid dom, bíonn sé de shíor liom, ceol an ghrá

I lár na cathrach breá, cois abhainn nó ar trá

Cloisim an tiún, is tú mo rún, sin ceol an ghrá

Éistigí, éistigí, cloisim arís é, ceol an ghrá

'Seo nó ansúid dom, bíonn sé de shíor liom, ceol an ghrá

I lár na cathrach breá, cois abhainn nó ar trá

Cloisim an tiún, is tú mo rún, sin ceol an ghrá

I lár na cathrach breá, cois abhainn nó ar trá

Cloisim an tiún, is tú mo rún, sin ceol an ghrá

English translation

Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love

Here or beyond me, it's eternally with me, the music of love

In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach

I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that's the music of love

Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love

The little bird sings it, the wind plays it for me, the music of love

Morning or midday, I always hear it

Listen to the tune, you are my sweetheart, that's the music of love

This is the Land of Eternal Youth and wings are in place of my legs

Now and forever happiness is before me, all around

You are my sweetheart by day and by night

And every single moment of my life

Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love

Here or beyond me, it's eternally with me, the music of love

In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach

I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that's the music of love

Listen, listen, I hear it again, the music of love

Here or beyond me, it's eternally with me, the music of love

In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach

I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that's the music of love

In the centre of the lovely city, beside the river or on the beach

I hear the tune, you are my sweetheart, that's the music of love