Ireland in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019

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Ireland in the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019
CountryFlag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
Selection process
  • Artist: Junior Eurovision Éire
  • Song: Internal selection
Selection date
  • Heats
  • 1 September 2019
  • 8 September 2019
  • 15 September 2019
  • 22 September 2019
  • Semi-Final
  • 29 September 2019
  • Final
  • 6 October 2019
Competing entry
Song"Banshee"
ArtistAnna Kearney
SongwritersNiall Mooney
Jonas Gladnikoff
Cyprian Cassar
Daniel Caruana
Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Anna Banks
Anna Kearney
Placement
Final result12th, 73 points
Participation chronology
◄2018 •2019• 2021►

Ireland was represented at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, held in Gliwice, Poland, with the song "Banshee" performed by Anna Kearney. The singer was selected though a national final organized by TG4 that between September 1 and October 6. The song was selected internally after Anna Kearney had been selected. This was Ireland's fifth appearance at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Contents

Background

Prior to the 2019 contest, Ireland had participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest four times since its debut in 2015. [1] TG4 previously attempted to participate at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014, but required funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), which was rejected. [2] In the 2018 contest, Taylor Hynes represented country in Minsk, Belarus with the song "IOU". He ended 15th out of 20 entries with 48 points.

Before Junior Eurovision

Junior Eurovision Éire

Heat 1

The participants in heat 1 were revealed on 26 August 2019, with the episode airing on 1 September. [3]

DrawArtistSong (performed in Irish)ResultNumber of stars
01Anna Kearney"Symphony" (Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson)Final Duel25
02Mollie Kennedy"Stay with Me" (Sam Smith)Eliminated22
03Aoife McNelis"Always" (Gavin James)Final Duel24
04Arabella Dolan"Take Me to Church" (Hozier)Semi-Final26
05Ciara McShane"Take My Hand" (Picture This)Eliminated18
06Joya & Priya"Wake Me Up" (Avicii and Aloe Blacc)Eliminated21
07Riaghan Boardman"Shotgun" (George Ezra)Eliminated19

Anna Kearney and Aoife McNelis both advanced to the final duel stage and performed their covers a second time. After their second performances, the jury members selected Anna as the winner of this episode, while Arabella was selected to advance to the semi-final. [4]

Heat 2

The participants for heat 2 were revealed on 7 September 2019. [5]

DrawArtistSong (performed in Irish)ResultNumber of stars
01Caoimhe McBride"September Song" (JP Cooper)Final Duel23
02Alison McGrath"Ghost" (Luan Parle)Semi-Final28
03Sophie Whelan"Speeding Cars" (Walking on Cars)Eliminated22
04Katie Healy"Feel It Again" (Hudson Taylor)Final Duel25
05Nikki Little"Illuminate" (Ham Sandwich)Eliminated19
06Rachel Kennedy"Shape of You" (Ed Sheeran)Eliminated20
07Cairde Ceolmhaire"Catch & Release" (Matt Simons)Eliminated19

Caoimhe McBride and Katie Healy both advanced to the final duel stage and performed their covers a second time. After their second performances, the jury members selected Caoimhe as the winner of this episode, while Alison was selected to advance to the semi-final. [6]

Heat 3

The participants for heat 3 were revealed on 13 September 2019. [7]

DrawArtistSong (performed in Irish)ResultNumber of stars
01Seisear Séieseach"When We Were Young" (Picture This)Final Duel25
02Grace Lauhoff"Thinking Out Loud" (Ed Sheeran)Eliminated22
03Katie O'Connor"Counting to Sleep" (Wallis Bird)Eliminated23
04Lauren Doherty"IDGAF" (Dua Lipa)Eliminated22
05Isabelle Moore"Falling Slowly" (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová)Final Duel24
06Savannah Phoenix-Munroe"Lullaby" (Paloma Faith and Sigala)Semi-Final26
07Daniel Ryan"Nervous" (Gavin James)Eliminated21

Seisear Séieseach and Isabelle Moore both advanced to the final duel stage and performed their covers a second time. After their second performances, the jury members selected Seisear as the winner of this episode, while Savannah was selected to advance to the semi-final. [8]

Heat 4

The participants for heat 4 were revealed on 22 September 2019. [9]

DrawArtistSong (performed in Irish)ResultNumber of stars
01Skye Murphy Darrer"Chandelier" (Sia)Final Duel27
02Molly Verider-Cassidy"The Cup Song" (Carter Family)Eliminated23
03Orla McDermott"Linger" (The Cranberries)Semi-Final30
04Fionn and Roisin Vigors"Teenage Dirtbag" (Wheatus)Eliminated21
05Rachel Hoey"We Couldn't Fake It" (The Coronas)Eliminated20
06Rebecca Cronin"Perfect" (Ed Sheeran)Final Duel25
07Sophie Bao Garrahy"I Won't Worry" (This Club)Eliminated23

Skye Murphy Darrer and Rebecca Cronin both advanced to the final duel stage and performed their covers a second time. After their second performances, the jury members selected Skye as the winner of this episode, while Orla was selected to advance to the semi-final. [10]

Semi-final

The semi-final aired on 29 September 2019.

DrawArtistSong (performed in Irish)Result
01Anna Kearney"This Is Me" (Keala Settle)Finalist
02Alison McGrath"Stay with Me" (Sam Smith)Final Duel
03Caoimhe McBride"Waiting for Love" (Avicii and Simon Aldred)Eliminated
04Seisear Séiseach"Pompeii" (Bastille )Eliminated
05Savannah Phoenix-Munroe"Circle of Life" (Elton John)Finalist
06Arabella Dolan"Friday I'm in Love" (The Cure)Eliminated
07Orla McDermott"Hold Back the River" (James Bay)Final Duel
08Skye Murphy Darrer"Shake It Off" (Taylor Swift)Eliminated

Anna Kearney and Savannah Phoenix-Munroe were announced as the first two finalists. Alison McGrath and Orla McDermott both advanced to the final duel stage and performed their covers a second time. After their second performances, the jury members selected Orla as the last finalist. [11]

Final

The final aired on 6 October 2019.

ArtistDrawHeat/Semi-Final Song (performed in Irish)DrawESC Winning Song (Original artist, year)Result
Anna Kearney01"Symphony" (Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson)04"Why Me?" (Linda Martin, 1992)Final Duel
Orla McDermott02"Linger" (The Cranberries)05"Rock 'n' Roll Kids" (Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan, 1994)Eliminated
Savannah Phoenix-Munroe03"Circle of Life" (Elton John)06"Hold Me Now" (Johnny Logan, 1987)Final Duel
Final Duel
DrawArtistHeat/Semi-Final Song (performed in Irish)Result
01Anna Kearney"Symphony" (Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson)Winner
02Savannah Phoenix-Munroe"Circle of Life" (Elton John)Eliminated

Artist and song information

Anna Kearney
Anna Kearney 2019.jpg
Background information
Born (2006-01-30) 30 January 2006 (age 19)
Dublin, Ireland
GenresPop
OccupationSinger
InstrumentVocals
Flag of Ireland.svg "Banshee"
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Anna Kearney
Language
Composer(s)
Cyprian Cassar
Jonas Gladnikoff
Niall Mooney
Daniel Caruana
Lyricist(s)
Niall Mooney
Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Anna Banks
Anna Kearney
Finals performance
Final result
12th
Final points
73
Entry chronology
◄ "IOU" (2018)
"Saor" (2021) ►

Anna Kearney

Anna Kearney (born 30 January 2006) is an Irish child singer. She represented Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Banshee". [12] She was born in Dublin, but she currently lives in Foxrock. Her mother, Eileen, was a performer in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 as part of the interval act Riverdance. Shortly after the contest, Kearney opened the 2019 Late Late Toy Show.

Banshee

"Banshee" is a song by Irish singer Anna Kearney. It represented Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019. After Anna Kearney had been selected to represent Ireland, TG4 contacted Niall Mooney and Jonas Gladnikoff, who had previously been responsible for the 2015 and 2018 Irish Junior Eurovision entries, to write the song. The song was also co-written by Cyprian Cassar and Daniel Caruana, with lyrics by Anna Banks, Fiachna Ó Braonáin as well as Anna Kearney.

At Junior Eurovision

During the opening ceremony and the running order draw which both took place on 18 November 2019, Ireland was drawn to perform twelfth on 24 November 2019, following Poland and preceding Ukraine. [13]

Voting

The same voting system that was introduced in the 2017 edition was used, where the results were determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. Every participating broadcaster assembled a national jury that consisted of three music industry professionals and two children aged between 10 and 15 who were citizens of the country they represented. The rankings of those jurors were combined to make an overall top ten. [14]

The online voting consisted of two phases. The first phase of the online voting began on 22 November 2019 when a recap of all the rehearsal performances was shown on the contest's website Junioreurovision.tv before the viewers could vote. After this, voters also had the option to watch longer one-minute clips from each participant's rehearsal. This first round of voting ended on 24 November at 15:59 CET. The second phase of the online voting took place during the live show and began right after the last performance and was open for 15 minutes. International viewers were able vote for a minimum of three and a maximum of five songs. [15] They were also able to vote for their own country's song. These votes were then turned into points which were determined by the percentage of votes received. For example, if a song received 10% of the votes, it received 10% of the available points.

Detailed voting results

Detailed voting results from Ireland [16]
DrawCountryJuror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror ERankPoints
01Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3910146101
02Flag of France.svg  France 92751065
03Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 11131361715
04Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 141713210
05Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 6739138
06Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 16114161213
07Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 212141947
08Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 151815131116
09Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 14612121414
10Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 128610392
11Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 101452874
12Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
13Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 181516171817
14Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 81094256
15Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 1316173712
16Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 171718181518
17Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 51284112
18Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 738151611
19Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 451111583

References

  1. ↑ Granger, Anthony (23 March 2015). "Ireland: Debuts At Junior Eurovision". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Granger, Anthony (22 May 2014). "Ireland: TG4 Fails To Get BAI Funding For JESC". eurovoix.com. Eurovoix. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Farren, Neil (26 August 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat 1 Participants Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  4. ↑ Farren, Neil (1 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat 1 Results". Eurovoix. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Granger, Anthony (7 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat Two Participants Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  6. ↑ Farren, Neil (8 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat 2 Results". Eurovoix. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  7. ↑ Herbert, Emily (13 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat Three Participants Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  8. ↑ Farren, Neil (15 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat 3 Results". Eurovoix. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  9. ↑ Herbert, Emily (21 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Four Three Participants Revealed". Eurovoix. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  10. ↑ Farren, Neil (22 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Heat 4 Results". Eurovoix. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  11. ↑ Farren, Neil (29 September 2019). "Ireland: Junior Eurovision Éire 2019 Semi-Final Results". Eurovoix. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  12. ↑ Farren, Neil (6 October 2019). "Ireland: Anna Kearney to Junior Eurovision 2019". Eurovoix. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  13. ↑ "This is the Junior Eurovision 2019 running order!". European Broadcasting Union. 18 November 2019. Archived from the original on 28 May 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  14. ↑ Granger, Anthony (15 November 2018). "Junior Eurovision 2018 – How Does The Voting Work?". Eurovoix.
  15. ↑ "How to vote for your favourites in Junior Eurovision 2019". Junioreurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. 22 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020.
  16. 1 2 3 "Results of the Final of Gliwice-Silesia 2019". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
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