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Riverdance @ Eurovision 1994

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Uploaded by on May 2, 2009

The fantastic debut of Riverdance, forming the interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland.
Starring Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, this act elicited such a tumultuous response that it evolved into the long-running show of the same name.

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  • I love how the applause at the end reflects just how blown away the audience was having just witnessed this performance.

  • I kinda wished I'd never seen it so I get the maximum impact the next time I watch it. I've seen it so many times now I've started giving the backing dancers names.

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  • It had started to look rosey in the Irish garden for once then BOOM!!!! We launch this on the world. Suddenly everyone was talking about little Ireland. We had come from a worse economic quagmire then than the one we are in right now. It may take time and effort and some considerable hardship but we'll dig our way out of this one too. Never write us off.

  • Still tears me up every time. There was so much good feeling in the country at that time. We'd had good tournaments in euro 88 and world cup 90 and were on our way to USA 94 without England, Scotland, Wales or N Ireland. We had big jack, big Paul, Packie, Keano, Denis, Houghton, et al. We had elected a woman president from the labour party, symbolically throwing off the old boys' club. The economy was growing exponentially, unemployment was at an all time low. It had started to look rosey in th

  • Makes you so proud to be Irish!

  • @manorrd You're so right, I get almost, almost, more goosebumps from the applause at the end than I get from the amazing performance... almost :]

  • This still gives me goosebumps after all these years x

  • One word, Three syllables: A-MAZ-ING

  • @griftywelder I'm just trying to understand what you mean by a couple of Yanks?? I think you may need to do some researh before you make a comment like that!

  • @prinzessin71 i was way older but i was with my beloved husband and it was an absolute beautiful moment it did gave us goose bumps it was fabulous

  • Genialni sa powinni występować na rozpoczęciu mistrzostw!!!!!

  • The best part is between 3'33 and 4'52

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