Dana Rosemary Scallon

Dana Rosemary Scallon

Dana Scallon in 1970

Pictured on arrival at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on 16 March 1970
Background information
Birth name Rosemary Brown
Also known as Dana
Born (1951-08-30) 30 August 1951
Islington, London, England
Genres Celtic, folk, pop, Christian
Years active 1967–present
Labels Rex, Decca, GTO, Creole, Warwick, Fanfare, Epic, Heart Beat, Lite, Ritz, Word, DS Music, Cherry Red
Website www.danaofficial.com
Dana Rosemary Scallon
Member of the European Parliament
In office
11 June 1999  11 June 2004
Preceded by Mark Killilea
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Constituency Connacht–Ulster
Personal details
Political party Independent
Spouse(s) Damien Scallon
Children 4
Religion Roman Catholicism

Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951), known in her singing career as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.

She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count.

Background

Scallon was born in Frederica Street, Islington, North London, to Robert and Sheila Brown (née Sheerin).[1][2] Her father worked as a porter at nearby King's Cross station. A hairdresser by trade, he'd relocated his family from his native Derry in Northern Ireland because of the high unemployment there after the war. She was five when her parents were advised by their doctor to return to Derry because of the London smog, and the harmful effect it had on some of their children. (London had not yet benefited from the Clean Air Act 1956.) Their new home was on Derry's Creggan housing estate where they stayed until 1967, when they moved to the newly built Rossville Flats complex[3] in the Bogside, an area overlooked by the historic city walls.

Her parents were musical – her father played the trumpet in his own dance band, The Imperial All Stars, and her mother was their guest pianist. They had seven children in all: three sons and four daughters, including their third-born child Grace who died at eight months from a penicillin allergy. Fifth-born and youngest daughter Rosemary won the first talent contest she entered - an all-aged event at St Columb's Hall when she was six. During her childhood she was taught to play the piano and violin, taught herself to play the acoustic guitar, sang in the school choir, and at one point, after years of ballet practice, considered becoming a ballet teacher. She took part in many more music and dance contests. In the early 1960s, she began performing with her sisters Eileen and Susan in charity concerts organised by their father. Then Eileen left the trio to become a hairdresser, leaving the others as a duo, who later managed to secure a summer season at the Portrush Palladium. Their Aunt Rosaleen in 1964 contacted a friend in the music business, arranger Frank Barber, and that led to Decca Records offering them a recording contract. Susan declined the offer, choosing instead to get married and emigrated to the United States with her husband, a member of the USAF. In 1965, the now solo Rosemary Brown took part in a local talent contest at the Embassy Ballroom, where she won first prize – a chance to record a demo tape. Tony Johnston, a headmaster and part-time promoter who sponsored the competition, took her under his wing while she continued with her studies at Thornhill College, the Roman Catholic grammar school for girls she joined in 1963.

After gaining seven good grades in her GCE O-level exams, Rex Records (Decca) in Dublin received her demo and manager Michael Geoghegan signed her up. Her debut single was "Sixteen", written by Tony Johnston, while the B-side, "Little Girl Blue", was her own composition. It came out on 17 November 1967, but failed to take off, though local TV and radio began to show an interest in her. It was at this time that she adopted the professional name of "Dana", which had been her school nickname. Now studying A-level music and English, she became popular in Dublin's cabaret and folk clubs at weekends, and was crowned Queen of Cabaret at Clontarf Castle in 1968. Rex Records' secretary Phil Mitton suggested she audition for the Irish National Song Contest, due to take place in February 1969 – a victory would see her represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest. With mixed feelings due to nerves she made it through to the final in Dublin where she sang "Look Around" by Michael Reade, later released as her fourth single. Shown live on Irish television, Scallon came second to Muriel Day and "Wages of Love", also written by Reade.

1970s – Eurovision victory and pop career

In December 1969 Tom McGrath, producer of the Irish National Song Contest, invited Scallon to try again in the next year's event, feeling that one of the entered songs, the ballad "All Kinds of Everything", would suit her; she did win the 1970 contest. Then on Saturday 21 March 1970 she performed the song at the Eurovision finals before an estimated viewing audience of two hundred million. She was declared the winner with 32 points, beating the favourite, UK's Mary Hopkin, with 26 and Germany's Katja Ebstein with 12. Spain's Julio Iglesias came equal fourth with Guy Bonnet of France and Henri Dès of Switzerland. This was Ireland's first of a record seven successes in the contest.

Dick Katz of Harold Davison Ltd. became her agent. Katz, a musician himself, represented such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, Dusty Springfield and Lulu.

"All Kinds of Everything" was composed by two Dublin printworkers, Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith, and produced by Ray Horricks and arranged by Phil Coulter. Released on 14 March, it shot to #1 in the Irish singles chart before the contest began, and stayed there for nine weeks. Across the Irish Sea it spent two weeks at the top of the UK singles chart on 18 and 25 April. It was also successful in Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. The song went on to sell more than two million units.

Scallon's debut album All Kinds of Everything, recorded at Decca Studios in West Hampstead on the weekend of 25 April 1970, was released in June and included four tracks co-written by the singer, as well as a new recording of the album's title track. Her follow-up single was issued in September, but Jerry Lordan's "I Will Follow You" failed to chart. The song that put an end to her one-hit wonder status was found on the album Barry Ryan 3. Written by Paul Ryan for his twin brother, "Who Put the Lights Out" was offered to her by their stepfather Harold Davison, the business partner of her agent. Her version, cut with Barry Ryan's producer Bill Landis, proved a strong comeback vehicle reaching #5 in Ireland. In the UK it became a #14 hit on 13 March 1971. There then followed three years of unsuccessful singles broken only by the Irish chart showing of "Sunday Monday Tuesday", a #4 hit in December 1973, although her 1972 single Crossword Puzzle, written by Rubin aka Lynsey De Paul and Green aka Barry Blue[4] did result in a performance of BBC's Top of the Pops.[5][6] This lack of success caused her agent to recommend she join the former head of Bell Records Dick Leahy on his new label, GTO Records.

She debuted on GTO with "Please Tell Him That I Said Hello" by Mike Shepstone and Peter Dibbens. Within a month of its release in October 1974 it was #7 in Ireland. It took until the new year before making its UK chart debut in January. Boosted by Top of the Pops performances on 6 February and 13 March, it climbed to #8 on 15 March 1975. This UK success gave the track a resurgence of popularity in Ireland where it rose to #7 again, this time in February. She also recorded a German version of the song; "Spiel nicht mit mir und meinem Glück" was a #27 hit in that country the same year. Other foreign language singles released by her include: "Wenn ein Mädchen verliebt ist" (German, 1971), "Tu Me Dis I Love You" (French, 1975), and a Japanese version of "It's Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas" in 1976.

Her next single, "Are You Still Mad at Me", a Geoff Stephens/Roger Greenaway composition, missed the chart. They then wrote another song for her called "It's Gonna be a Cold Cold Christmas". Released four weeks prior to Christmas, the single gave her her second-highest UK chart position when it reached #4 on 27 December 1975. In Ireland it made #3, and the following year #12. At the end of the year Scallon collected two awards – Best Female Singer in Britain from the NME, and Best Female Singer from the TV Times. The success continued into 1976 with a cover of Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" becoming a UK #31 hit on 13 March. In September however, while promoting her new single, "Fairytale", she lost her voice. Her left vocal cord, which had been cauterized the year before, required urgent surgery to remove what turned out to be a non-malignant growth, as well as a small part of the cord itself. This caused some newspapers to report on the possibility that she might never sing again. Despite her inability to fully promote "Fairytale", a disco number written by Paul Greedus and produced by Barry Blue, it became a UK #13 hit on Christmas Day, and was also her biggest international success since "All Kinds of Everything". But having failed to regain her singing voice after the operation, she contacted Florence Wiese Norberg, a respected singing teacher. With her help she resumed live performances with a week-long engagement at Caesar's Palace in Luton in December 1977.

Barry Blue started work on her fifth album soon after finishing work on Heatwave's second album, released in April 1978. Her final session at Utopia Studios in London ended two weeks before her wedding day in October. Issued in April 1979, The Girl is Back was the first LP she made that contained no cover versions, and the track that rocked the most, "Something's Cookin' in the Kitchen" by Dave Jordan, became its only UK hit single, reaching #44 on 14 April. A disappointing result after a marketing campaign that included a new look for Scallon, a music video, life-size posters in major cities, and retailers receiving bonus flexi discs. In Ireland it made #22. The album's title track was also released, followed by "I Can't Get Over Getting Over You", which she sang live on Top of the Pops in October, her final appearance on the show.

A new phase in her career began after Pope John Paul II came to Ireland in September 1979, inspiring her to write with her husband the Irish chart-topper, "Totus Tuus".

Outside her chart career, Scallon had remained a popular personality since her 1970 Eurovision win. She had played the part of a tinker girl in Flight of the Doves (1971), a children's adventure film starring Ron Moody and Jack Wild and directed by Ralph Nelson.[7] She also performed in summer seasons at resorts and seasonal pantomimes as well as performing at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and a week of sell-out shows at the London Palladium. Scallon also performed extensively in cabaret venues and was voted Top Female Vocalist at the National Club Acts Awards in 1979. BBC Television gave her two shows of her own: a series of A Day with Dana in 1974 and four series of Wake Up Sunday in 1979. For BBC Radio she presented a series of I Believe in Music in 1977.

1980s – Catholic music

Having scored an Irish number one in January 1980 with the song that was based on the Pope's motto: Totus Tuus, Latin for Totally Yours, the much larger American Christian market became a possible outlet for her music. Not long after returning home from a promotional visit to the National Religious Broadcasters conference in Washington, opened by US President Jimmy Carter, she was contacted by award winning songwriter Kurt Kaiser, vice president of Word Records. He invited her back to the USA where she was offered a recording contract. Meanwhile, Warwick Records issued Everything is Beautiful in late 1980. Recorded in September at Pye Studios in London, the LP subtitled 20 Inspirational Songs was advertised on TV and became her biggest-selling album in the UK, reaching #43 in the chart on 10 January 1981. It was followed later that year by Totally Yours, her first Christian album for Word Records; the songs "Praise the Lord", "The Soft Rain" and "Totus Tuus" were credited to "Dana and Damien Scallon". As was "Little Baby (Grace's Song)", written while she was pregnant with their first child.

She was soon back in the studios again to make Magic in 1982, a pop album for Lite Records made at Morgan Studios and Maison Rouge Studios in London. It included four songs by her younger brothers John and Gerald Brown, as well as the single "I Feel Love Comin' On", written by Barry White, which peaked at #66 in the UK on 22 May. Collaborating with her younger brothers they wrote the official Northern Ireland 1982 FIFA World Cup song "Yer Man", and she recorded it with the full squad before they headed to Spain for the finals. Following this, her second album for Word was completed; Let There Be Love contained up-tempo Christian pop, jazz, ballads, and an old Irish hymn sung in Gaelic called Ag Criost an Siol.

Scallon starred in a West End production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, staged at the Phoenix Theatre during the 1983 Christmas and New Year pantomime season. The venues first panto broke box-office records and was extended into February. She played Snow White for over fourteen years, each time in a different city, beginning the run at the New Theatre, Hull in 1982.

A tour of America took place in 1984 to promote her two Word albums. Appearances were made in concert halls, churches, colleges and also on TV and radio.

After fifteen years in show business Hodder and Stoughton published Dana – An Autobiography in 1985. It told the story of her childhood, married life and music career, as well as her growing devotion to God. At the same time as her book launch came the release of her fifties tribute album If I Give My Heart to You, featuring her last UK chart entry "Little Things Mean a Lot", #92 on 13 July 1985. In Ireland in made #27, as did the album's title track.

Due to work commitments in 1979, she wasn't in the country when Pope John Paul II became the first pope ever to visit Ireland. But she eventually saw him in 1987 at the Superdome in New Orleans, having been invited there to perform "Totus Tuus" before a gathering of 80,000 or more. After her performance the pontiff made his way to the stage to personally thank her for writing the song.

1990s – politics

Soon after completing a concert tour of England in early 1990, she took her family to Florida for an Easter holiday. Her break was interrupted by a request to fly to Irondale, Alabama and make a guest appearance at Eternal Word Television Network's (EWTN) tenth anniversary show. Afterwards, the network's founder Mother Angelica enquired if her ex-hotelier husband would like to work there, setting up a retreat centre to look after the hundreds of visitors the network attracted each day. Then mid holiday she sang at a Rosary Rally in Palm Beach, and was asked to write a theme song for the Rosary. The result was The Rosary, an album released with Heart Beat Records in 1991 that has amassed over a million sales around the world.

By August 1991 the Scallon's were living in Mountain Brook, close to EWTN's headquarters where Damien now worked. Thoughts of winding down her career were dashed when her husband was asked if his wife would like to work there, presenting a music programme. Say Yes became the first TV series she made for them. Three more followed: We Are One Body, Backstage and Dana and friends. With this exposure she became a popular Catholic music singer, appearing at conferences and public gatherings across America. Heart Beat Records, the US Catholic music label, issued a number of her music and prayer albums.

To help celebrate the sixth World Youth Day event held in Cherry Creek State Park, Denver in 1993, she was invited to sing in the presence of Pope John Paul II the theme song for the occasion, "We Are One Body", a song she composed herself. She also sang at the World Youth Day celebrations held in Paris in 1997, Toronto in 2002 and Sydney in 2008.

In June 1997, she received a letter from the Christian Community Centre in Ireland suggesting she run for the Irish presidency. Having no interest in politics at the time, and never having heard of that organisation, she threw the "incredible" proposal in the bin. But they persisted and similar mail arrived from other people. Then the media got involved. She eventually agreed to seek nomination as a candidate in the 1997 Irish presidential election, standing as an independent under the name Dana Rosemary Scallon. Her campaign was based on the Irish Constitution and her belief that it could only be amended with the agreement of the Irish people by public ballot. She later became the first-ever presidential candidate to secure a nomination solely from County and City Councils, rather than from members of the Oireachtas. Polling day was 31 October, and Scallon received 175,458 of the first-preference votes (13.8%), coming third to Fianna Fáil's candidate and eventual winner Mary McAleese. Before returning to America she told reporters: "I may not be a president, but I am a precedent."[8]

She was granted US citizenship in 1999, requiring her to swear an oath renouncing allegiance to any other state.[9][10] That same year she again stood as an independent, this time winning a seat in the European Parliament, representing Connacht–Ulster. She campaigned on family values and her opposition to abortion, contraception and divorce, along with a Eurosceptic line on the EU. Scallon refused to associate with any political party despite Fianna Fáil making several approaches for her to join them.[11] On becoming an MEP her eight-year stay in the US came to an end.

2000s to present

In 2001 she opposed a proposed amendment to the Irish constitution that would have legalised the "morning after pill" and IUD. The amendment was defeated in a referendum in 2002, although it was supported by the mainstream political parties. Scallon also had public disagreements at the time with the Catholic hierarchy (notably with Cardinal Desmond Connell), the latter wishing instead to negotiate a consensus solution.[11]

As an independent she unsuccessfully contested a seat in Galway West in the 2002 Irish general election, scoring just 3.5% of the first preference vote. In June 2004, Scallon lost her European Parliament seat, taking 13.5% of the vote. Later that year she failed to secure a nomination to the office of President of Ireland against the uncontested incumbent.[12]

Returning to the world of entertainment in 2005, she spent seven weeks on the RTÉ television series The Afternoon Show, where she did a fitness routine with a trainer and lost fifteen pounds in weight in time for her eldest daughter's wedding. In 2006, she and dancer Ronan McCormack were paired together in the RTÉ dance series Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels. They made it to the final show and came second. That same year, Scallon and her husband launched their own music label, DS Music Productions.[13] One of the first albums released was Totus Tuus, a compilation of songs dedicated to the memory of Pope John Paul II and issued on the anniversary of his death. A children's album was released in 2007, along with a DVD in 2008, entitled Good Morning Jesus: Prayers & Songs for Children of All Ages, which featured in a special series on EWTN. The Scallon's and their new label were sued in 2007 by Heart Beat Records for copyright violations on several of the albums they'd recently released.[14]

Gill & Macmillan published her second autobiography in 2007. Her political career took centre stage in All Kinds of Everything. To coincide with the book launch, her first secular album since Forever Christmas a decade earlier, was released. A Thing Called Love was produced by her and her youngest brother Gerry, who also played guitar and keyboards, while her youngest son Robert played drums.

In 2009, Scallon became a judge on The All Ireland Talent Show,[15] and in the summer of 2010 she participated in the Best of British Variety tour.[16] She was a contestant in the fourth series of the reality television programme, Celebrity Bainisteoir, in 2011, but was forced to withdraw by RTÉ when she announced she would run for the Irish presidency again.[17][18]

2011 presidential campaign

On 19 September 2011, at the Fitzwilliam Hotel on St Stephen's Green, Scallon announced she would be seeking a nomination to enter the following month's Irish presidential election.[19] Carlow County Council was the first to nominate her.[20][21] She was then nominated by other County Councils thus becoming a candidate.[22][23] There were seven candidates in total, five men and two women.

In the first debate, held on RTÉ Radio 1's News at One, independent candidate Scallon explained she had delayed her entry into the race due to numerous family bereavements.[24] Appearing on The Late Late Show alongside the other candidates, Scallon displayed a copy of the EU Constitution, telling her audience: "This is what this election is about. I have the knowledge and experience to be able to protect our sovereignty and that's the only question I think that's really urgent at this time." When asked by Ryan Tubridy if she would refuse to sign any bill threatening Bunreacht na hÉireann, she responded by saying, "You bet your boots I would".[25][26] In fact, the President does not have such a veto power, being able only to refer a Bill to the Council of State for its consideration.[27]

Speaking on Newstalk's The Right Hook programme on 5 October 2011, Scallon said: "I am not anti Europe. I have always said that Europe, the concept of Europe is good. We want to be in Europe."[28]

It was revealed on 7 October that Scallon had dual US and Irish citizenship, but she denied hiding this from the public, saying that her US citizenship, which involved her taking an oath renouncing allegiance to Ireland, was not an issue then or now and she had no reason to hide it.[9]

During a debate on Prime Time (RTÉ) on 12 October, Scallon read out a prepared statement towards the end of the debate, announcing that a "malicious" and "false" accusation had been made against her and her family in the United States and, while refusing to divulge any details, she said she would leave "no stone unturned" in her mission to track down the person or organisation responsible.[29][30] The incident was described as "bizarre" by some media.[31] It later transpired that the statement referred to her brother, John Brown, who had been accused in 2008, in the course of litigation in the US among family members, of having sexually abused his niece. He denied the allegation.[10] Brown was arrested by London police in June 2012, following a complaint against him made in October 2011. In May 2013, he was charged with three counts of indecent assault on two girls aged under 16.[32] John Brown was found not guilty and cleared on all charges on 25 July 2014.[33] Marian Finnucan RTE said He was falsely accused http://www.rte.ie/radio1/marian-finucane/programmes/2014/0726/633234-marian-finucane-saturday-26-july-2014/?clipid=1638042[34]

Voting took place on 27 October and the fourth and final count was completed two days later. Scallon received 51,220 votes (2.9%) and came sixth to Labour's Michael D. Higgins.[35]

Personal life

On 5 October 1978, she married hotelier Damien Scallon at St Eugene's Cathedral in Derry, where her parents were wed. The couple first met in 1970 at his Ardmore Hotel in Newry, where a reception took place following a "Dana Place" street-naming ceremony in nearby Hilltown, to honour her recent Eurovision success. After a three-week honeymoon in Grenada the newlyweds set up home in Rostrevor, County Down. They have four children: Grace (born 1981), Ruth (born 1983), John James (born 1984), and Robert (born 1989).

The Scallons currently live in Claregalway, County Galway.[36]

Discography

SinglesAlbums[37]
  • 1967 "Sixteen"
  • 1968 "Come Along Murphy"
  • 1968 "Heidschi Bumbeidschi"
  • 1969 "Look Around"
  • 1970 "All Kinds of Everything" (Ireland #1, UK #1, Austria #7, Germany #4, Netherlands #2, New Zealand #19, South Africa #7, Switzerland #7)
  • 1970 "I Will Follow You"
  • 1971 "Who Put the Lights Out" (Ireland #5, UK #14)
  • 1971 "Today"
  • 1971 "Isn't It a Pity"
  • 1972 "New Days...New Ways"
  • 1972 "Crossword Puzzle"
  • 1973 "Do I Still Figure in Your Life"
  • 1973 "Sunday Monday Tuesday" (Ireland #4)
  • 1974 "Please Tell Him That I Said Hello" (Germany #271, Ireland #7, UK #8
    1as "Spiel nicht mit mir und meinem Glück")
  • 1975 "Are You Still Mad at Me"
  • 1975 "It's Gonna Be a Cold Cold Christmas" (Ireland #3 [1976 reissue #12], UK #4)
  • 1976 "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (UK #31)
  • 1976 "Rivers Are for Boats"
  • 1976 "Fairytale" (Mexico #1, Germany #21, Austria #19, Belgium/Flemish Region #4, Netherlands #3, UK #13)
  • 1976 "I Love How You Love Me" (Netherlands #27)
  • 1977 "Put Some Words Together"
  • 1979 "Something's Cookin' in the Kitchen" (UK #44, Ireland #22)
  • 1979 "The Girl is Back"
  • 1979 "I Can't Get Over Getting Over You"
  • 1979 "Totus Tuus" (Ireland #1)
  • 1980 "When a Child is Born"
  • 1981 "Lady of Knock" (Ireland #23)
  • 1981 "Dream Lover" (Ireland #26)
  • 1982 "I Feel Love Comin' On" (UK #66)
  • 1982 "Yer Man"
  • 1982 "You Never Gave Me Your Love" / "Marathon"
  • 1982 "If You Really Love Me"
  • 1985 "Little Things Mean a Lot" (Ireland #27)
  • 1985 "If I Give My Heart to You" (Ireland #27)
  • 1987 "Lipstick on Your Collar"
  • 1988 "Summer Romeo"
  • 1989 "Harmony"
  • 2005 "Children of the World"
  • 1970 All Kinds of Everything
  • 1975 The World of Dana
  • 1975 Have a Nice Day
  • 1976 Love Songs & Fairytales
  • 1979 The Girl is Back
  • 1980 Everything is Beautiful (UK #43)
  • 1981 Totally Yours
  • 1982 Magic
  • 1983 Let There Be Love
  • 1984 Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
  • 1985 If I Give My Heart to You
  • 1987 In the Palm Of His Hand
  • 1987 No Greater Love
  • 1989 The Gift of Love
  • 1990 All Kinds of Everything (compilation)
  • 1991 Dana's Ireland
  • 1991 The Rosary
  • 1992 Lady of Knock
  • 1993 Hail Holy Queen
  • 1993 Say Yes!
  • 1995 The Healing Rosary
  • 1996 Dana The Collection
  • 1997 Humble Myself
  • 1997 Forever Christmas
  • 1997 Heavenly Portrait
  • 1998 The Best of Dana
  • 1998 Stations of The Cross
  • 2004 Perfect Gift
  • 2005 In Memory of Me
  • 2006 Totus Tuus
  • 2007 Good Morning Jesus!
  • 2007 A Thing Called Love
  • 2012 Praise & Thanks
  • 2012 Ave Maria

References

  1. martinunderwood.co.uk – Frederica Street as seen in The Ladykillers, a classic Ealing comedy made while Scallon was still living at number 89 (central character Mrs Wilberforce lived at "number 57", a set built at the end of the street). Archived 19 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. "Frederica / Frederick Street now". Multimap.com. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  3. "– Rossville Street today, where the flats once stood opposite Glenfada Park". Multimap.com. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  4. https://www.discogs.com/Dana-Crossword-Puzzle/master/887263
  5. http://hardprog.pagesperso-orange.fr/top_of_the_pops_1972_episode_guide_2314.htm
  6. http://totp1970-1975.blogspot.com/2015/02/22nd-june-1972.html
  7. imdb.com – Flight of the Doves
  8. Terry Prone (26 May 2011). "With Mary on for the Aras the contest really hots up". Evening Herald.
  9. 1 2 "Dana denies US passport deception". RTÉ. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  10. 1 2 Maeve Sheehan (16 October 2011). "This is a bid to discredit me -- I won't be broken". Sunday Independent (Ireland).
  11. 1 2 As revealed in an interview, Conversations with Eamon Dunphy, 3 November 2007, RTÉ Radio 1 http://www.rte.ie/radio1/eamondunphy/
  12. "Dana election results at Elections Ireland". Electionsireland.org. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  13. "DS Music Productions". Dana-music.com. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  14. "Heartbeat Records Inc v DS Music Production". Dockets.justia.com. 20 July 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  15. "Waterford News & Star:". Waterford-news.ie. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  16. "Home | Dana set to star in town". Whitehaven News. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  17. "RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoirs announced". RTÉ Ten. 15 July 2011.
  18. "Lissan GAC". Mid Ulster Mail. 27 September 2011.
  19. "Dana seeks help from all sides in bid to nail down her nomination". Irish Independent. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  20. "Dana get first Aras nomination, as meetings continue". Newstalk. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  21. "Carlow votes for Dana". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  22. "Dana is officially a presidential candidate following Offaly nomination". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  23. "Dana in Irish presidential election after fourth council nomination". Bbc.co.uk. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  24. Taylor, Charlie. "Áras candidates set out positions in first debate". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  25. O'Halloran, Marie; Cullen, Paul (1 October 2011). "Campaigns to cost up to €350,000, say candidates". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  26. Cullen, Paul. "Áras candidates dodge bullets". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  27. Article 26, Constitution of Ireland
  28. "Dana insists: 'I am not anti-Europe'". The Journal. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  29. "Live - Prime Time Debate: 2247". RTÉ News. 12 October 2011.
  30. "Dana criticises "vile and false" accusation against member of her family". Irish Examiner. 12 October 2011.
  31. "Dana future in presidential campaign in doubt". Breakingnews.ie. 12 October 2011.
  32. "Dana's brother charged with child molestation in UK", Independent.ie, 23 May 2013
  33. , John Brown, the brother of Eurovision winner Dana, has been cleared of five counts of historic sex abuse, bbc.co.uk, 25 July 2014.
  34. rte
  35. "Irish presidential election: Michael D Higgins elected". BBC. 29 October 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
  36. "Claregalway Resident Dana Intends To Run For President". galwaynews.ie. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  37. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 139. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Muriel Day
with "The Wages of Love"
Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest
1970
Succeeded by
Angela Farrell
with "One Day Love"
Preceded by
United Kingdom Lulu with "Boom Bang-a-Bang"
Spain Salomé with "Vivo cantando"
France Frida Boccara
with "Un jour, un enfant"
Netherlands Lenny Kuhr
with "De troubadour"
(four-way tie)
Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
1970
Succeeded by
Monaco Séverine
with "Un banc, un arbre, une rue"
Political offices
Preceded by
Mark Killilea
Member of the European Parliament
for Connacht–Ulster

1999–2004
Constituency abolished
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