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- Fifty years ago, Dana Rosemary Brown, an 18 year-old schoolgirl from Derry’s troubled Bogside headed to Amsterdam to represent Ireland in the 15th Eurovision Song Contest.
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Dana - The Original Derry Girl. She’s the singer who has survived career-threatening throat surgery, faced major court cases and endured bruising political battles. An early publicity shot. She...
May 11, 2020 · In 1970, an 18-year-old schoolgirl left the Bogside in Derry to represent Ireland in the 15th Eurovision Song Contest. What happened that night was to change her life forever.
May 10, 2020 · Dana the Original Derry Girl is an emotional and honest look back at that young schoolgirl’s incredible life story, retracing her steps to the stage of the RAI theatre, where against the odds she became Ireland’s first Eurovision winner.
- Eurovision United Community
- Original Derry Girl
- Fame Flight
- Christian Chart-Topper
- Abortion Controversy
- MEP Victory
- All kinds… Is ‘People’S Song’
But win she did, beating the United Kingdom’s Mary Hopkins to claim Ireland’s first victory in the 1970 competition, uniting both sides of adivided communityin an outpouring of celebration. Whilst some Eurovision winners fade into obscurity, Dana has enjoyed a rollercoaster five decades, from selling 30,000 records a day at her pop star peak, to ru...
These highs and lows are recorded in a candid BBC4 documentary, Dana – The Original Derry Girl, marking the 50th anniversary of the night that shot her to international fame. “I went back on stage at the Amsterdam theatre for the first time and it was like walking into a time capsule, it was completely unchanged,” says Dana, who is locked down at h...
The overnight fame brought by Eurovision was too much, she admits. “I ran away. I was staying with a manager who was afraid of anybody taking me away from him, and he kept me away from everybody. I needed my friends and family and I couldn’t deal with being isolated on my own.” Traumatic events like the 1972 Bloody Sunday Bogside shootings largely ...
She embarked on a new career in Christian music, topping the Irish charts with Totus Tuus, based on the Pope’s Latin motto, written with husband, hotelier Damien Scallon. Whilst recording faith-based music in America, she was approached to stand to become President of Ireland in 1997. “I never thought I would be President and I was not interested i...
“I have never altered my belief that every life is sacred and that the life of the mother and child are equal and must be protected,” she says. “I don’t believe that deliberately taking someone’s life can ever be justified.” Dana does have “lifelong friendships with gay people and I do not judge people.” Her beliefs did not prevent her winning Conn...
“I made the international committee members fly to Ireland and drive down Galway’s single lane roads. They were terrified at all the cars coming towards them. It showed them how much we needed investment in our roads.” It was ahead of a vital TV debate during her second Presidential bid that the family abuse allegations occurred. “Politics is a dan...
She sympathises with all the performers stood down after Covid-19 forced the cancellation of this weekend’s Eurovision in the Netherlands and praises television producers for “pulling out all the stops” to create special substitute shows. Does Dana ever get fed up of her signature song? “For a period I did get tired of All Kinds of Everythingand I ...
Dana the Original Derry Girl being shown on May 11. Dana and Damien on their wedding day. Staff reporter. Fifty years ago, an 18-year-old schoolgirl left the Bogside and headed off to Amsterdam to represent Ireland in the 15th Eurovision Song Contest. What happened that night was to change her life forever.
A well-deserved tribute to DANA's half-century since winning Eurovision in 1970.🏆🎈 🎉🙂DANA – The Original Derry Girl is a Waddell Media production. It was...
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May 11, 2020 · Dana: the Original Derry Girl (Monday, RTÉ 1), a documentary created with the cooperation of Dana Rosemary Scallon, takes us right back to this world and then decides to glide frictionlessly...
