Millennium of Love

"Millennium of Love" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed in English by Eamonn Toal.

The song is a dramatic ballad, inspired by the coming of the new Millennium (arguments about the start of this period aside). Eamonn sings about the negative aspects of the modern world, but expresses hope that humanity will overcome these and let our carbon footprints leave a harvest for future generations. It was a song before its time as today everyone is talking about the importance of carbon footprints.

Although it swept the boards at the National Song Contest via a public voting system, the song was unkindly dubbed 'Millennium Of Cheese' by cynics in Ireland, who accused it of being yet another bland ballad with schmaltzy lyrics. However, it still remains Ireland's best placing in the Eurovision since the new system of phone voting took place scoring more votes than the combined total of Ireland's next 5 entries.

The song was performed twenty-third on the night, following Turkey's Pınar Ayhan & The SOS with "Yorgunum anla" and preceding Austria's The Rounder Girls with "All To You". At the close of voting, it had received 92 points, placing 6th in a field of 24. It had been selected by the other contestants as the most likely to win on the night.

It was succeeded as Irish representative at the 2001 contest by Gary O'Shaughnessy with "Without Your Love".

Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Countries
Final
  • Israel
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom
  • Estonia
  • France
  • Romania
  • Malta
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Belgium
  • Cyprus
  • Iceland
  • Spain
  • Denmark
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
  • Croatia
  • Sweden
  • Macedonia
  • Finland
  • Latvia
  • Turkey
  • Ireland
  • Austria
Artists
Final
  • PingPong
  • Linda Wagenmakers
  • Nicki French
  • Ines
  • Sofia Mestari
  • Taxi
  • Claudette Pace
  • Charmed
  • Alsou
  • Nathalie Sorce
  • Voice
  • August & Telma
  • Serafín Zubiri
  • Olsen Brothers
  • Stefan Raab
  • Jane Bogaert
  • Goran Karan
  • Roger Pontare
  • XXL
  • Nina Åström
  • Brainstorm
  • Pınar Ayhan & The SOS
  • Eamonn Toal
  • The Rounder Girls
Songs
Final
  • "Sameyakh"
  • "No Goodbyes"
  • "Don't Play That Song Again"
  • "Once in a Lifetime"
  • "On aura le ciel"
  • "The Moon"
  • "Desire"
  • "My Heart Goes Boom"
  • "Solo"
  • "Envie de vivre"
  • "Nomiza"
  • "Tell Me!"
  • "Colgado de un sueño"
  • "Fly on the Wings of Love"
  • "Wadde hadde dudde da?"
  • "La vita cos'è?"
  • "Kad zaspu anđeli"
  • "When Spirits Are Calling My Name"
  • "100% te ljubam"
  • "A Little Bit"
  • "My Star"
  • "Yorgunum Anla"
  • "Millennium of Love"
  • "All To You"


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    “The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

    “Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.”
    —Adele Faber (20th century)