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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1269774806">.mw-parser-output .ib-tv-episode .infobox-above{background-color:#ccf;font-weight:normal;padding:0.25em 1em}.mw-parser-output .ib-tv-episode .infobox-header{background-color:#ccf;padding:0.25em 1em}.mw-parser-output .ib-tv-episode .infobox-subheader{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-tv-label .infobox-label{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .ib-tv-episode-guests{margin:0;padding:5px;padding-left:1em;text-align:left}</style><table class="infobox ib-tv-episode vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">"<b>A Song for Europe</b>"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Father_Ted" title="Father Ted">Father Ted</a></i> episode</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Episode <abbr title="number">no.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap">Series 2</span><br />Episode 5</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Declan_Lowney" title="Declan Lowney">Declan Lowney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Linehan" title="Graham Linehan">Graham Linehan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mathews_(writer)" title="Arthur Mathews (writer)">Arthur Mathews</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Featured music</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy_(band)" title="The Divine Comedy (band)">The Divine Comedy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cinematography by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">Chris Owen</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editing by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mykola_Pawluk" title="Mykola Pawluk">Mykola Pawluk</a></li> <li>Tim Waddell</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original air date</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">5 April 1996<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1996-04-05</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary"><span class="nowrap">Guest appearances</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data ib-tv-episode-guests"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_O%27Donoghue" title="Maurice O'Donoghue">Maurice O'Donoghue</a> as Father Dick Byrne</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Wycherley" title="Don Wycherley">Don Wycherley</a> as Father Cyril MacDuff</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Caffrey" title="Peter Caffrey">Peter Caffrey</a> as Charles Hedges</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Kenny" title="Jon Kenny">Jon Kenny</a> as Fred Rickwood</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header noprint summary">Episode chronology</th></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width: 100%; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0; text-align: center;">← <b>Previous</b><br />"<a href="/wiki/Old_Grey_Whistle_Theft" title="Old Grey Whistle Theft">Old Grey Whistle Theft</a>" </td> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0 0.2em 0.1em; text-align: center;"><b>Next</b> →<br />"<a href="/wiki/The_Plague_(Father_Ted)" title="The Plague (Father Ted)">The Plague</a>" </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Father_Ted_episodes" title="List of Father Ted episodes">List of episodes</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>A Song for Europe</b>" was the fifth episode of the second series of the <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> sitcom <i><a href="/wiki/Father_Ted" title="Father Ted">Father Ted</a></i> and the 11th episode overall. It originally aired on 5 April 1996 and has since been recognised as one of the most popular episodes of the show.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The episode was based on Ireland's winning streak in the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Eurovision Song Contest">Eurovision Song Contest</a> during the 1990s. The plot featured Ted and Dougal trying to write a song for the contest (its name was not mentioned) to settle a rivalry with Father Dick Byrne. The pair tried unsuccessfully to write their own song before deciding to use an old song they thought no-one would remember. This plan backfired and they had to perform their original brief and tuneless song, but they still won the Irish selection contest. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Plot"></span><span class="anchor" id="Summary"></span><span class="anchor" id="Synopsis"></span> The episode begins with <a href="/wiki/Father_Dougal_McGuire" title="Father Dougal McGuire">Dougal</a> having "<a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Eurovision Song Contest">Eurosong</a> fever" weeks ahead of the competition. After initially rejecting Dougal's suggestion that they write a song to represent <a href="/wiki/Ireland_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest">Ireland in the competition</a>, on the grounds that they are not skilled at songwriting, <a href="/wiki/Father_Ted_Crilly" title="Father Ted Crilly">Ted</a> discovers that his nemesis Father Dick Byrne plans to enter a song. Ted decides that if Byrne can write a song, he and Dougal can write a better one. After working all night, they come up with "My Lovely Horse", a tuneless dirge with ridiculous lyrics lasting less than a minute. When they try the song out on Mrs Doyle and Father Jack, Jack is so enraged that he blasts Ted's guitar with a shotgun. Disillusioned, they are about to give up when Ted discovers that their lyrics fit a tune by "Nin Huugen and the Huugen Notes", an obscure <a href="/wiki/B-side" class="mw-redirect" title="B-side">B-side</a> of an entry from the fifth-placed act in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Melodi_Grand_Prix" title="Melodi Grand Prix">Eurosong preselection</a> in 1976. Ted thinks that because the whole band had died in a plane crash, including all the record company staff and everyone involved in the copyright, they would get away with stealing it. </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> theatre where "A Song for Ireland" is being hosted, Ted and Dougal listen to Dick Byrne's entry, "The Miracle Is Mine". It is extremely impressive, with a full choir, huge band and a passionate performance from Byrne. Ted is worried and goes backstage for a smoke, where he hears the Norwegian tune first being whistled by a maintenance worker, then playing in a lift. He is horrified, realising that the song is better known than he thought. He and Dougal are forced to adopt "Plan B" and perform their own composition. </p><p>Despite their dismal performance with what must have been an out-of-tune guitar (Dougal is seen making random adjustments to the tuning before they go on stage<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), and against the obvious wishes of the audience, the show's producer Charles Hedges selects "My Lovely Horse" as Ireland's entry. He laughs off Byrne's suggestion that he wanted to make sure that Ireland would lose the main competition, it being too expensive to keep hosting the competition every year after Ireland had won the previous five contests. (Ireland won the real <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Eurovision Song Contest">Eurovision Song Contest</a> in 1992, 1993 and 1994, and had the costly obligation of hosting it in 1993, 1994 and 1995.) The episode closes at the Eurosong contest, with Ted, Dougal, <a href="/wiki/Father_Jack_Hackett" class="mw-redirect" title="Father Jack Hackett">Jack</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mrs._Doyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Mrs. Doyle">Mrs. Doyle</a> listening to every country awarding them "<a href="/wiki/Nul_points" class="mw-redirect" title="Nul points">nul points</a>". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guitar_chords">Guitar chords</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Guitar chords"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Ted and Dougal demonstrate the finished song to Jack and Mrs Doyle, Ted plays two chords on the guitar in the <a href="/wiki/Key_of_G" class="mw-redirect" title="Key of G">key of G</a>. Most of the song is performed on a <a href="/wiki/G_major" title="G major">G major</a> chord, which alternates briefly with <a href="/wiki/C_major" title="C major">C major</a>. The change from G to C produces the awkward pauses. A third chord, <a href="/wiki/A_minor" title="A minor">A minor</a>, appears once in the "Wait, I can do this bit" section at the end, on the repeat of "night". A small keyboard provides an out-of-time, <a href="/wiki/Samba" title="Samba">samba</a>-style click track.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_Production">Background and Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Background and Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Inspiration">Inspiration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Inspiration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It has been widely claimed that this episode was inspired by real events surrounding Ireland's selection of its entry for the <a href="/wiki/1994_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="1994 Eurovision Song Contest">1994 Eurovision Song Contest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Faced with the daunting and expensive task of hosting its third consecutive Eurovision, <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89" title="RTÉ">RTÉ</a> were said to have chosen an inferior quality song (<a href="/wiki/Paul_Harrington_(musician)" title="Paul Harrington (musician)">Paul Harrington</a> & <a href="/wiki/Charlie_McGettigan" title="Charlie McGettigan">Charlie McGettigan</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Kids" title="Rock 'n' Roll Kids">Rock 'n' Roll Kids</a>") over vastly superior ones, in order to prevent the possibility of an unwanted third victory.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the event, "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" not only won the contest but also became the highest scoring song in Eurovision history up to that point. </p><p>A month after this episode was first broadcast, Ireland won the <a href="/wiki/1996_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="1996 Eurovision Song Contest">1996 Eurovision Song Contest</a> to secure the country's fourth victory in five years. The Norwegian broadcaster NRK branded the 1996 contest as "Eurosong 96" in its logo. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""My_Lovely_Horse""><span id=".22My_Lovely_Horse.22"></span>"My Lovely Horse"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: "My Lovely Horse""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The song was written by <a href="/wiki/Graham_Linehan" title="Graham Linehan">Graham Linehan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mathews_(writer)" title="Arthur Mathews (writer)">Arthur Mathews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hannon" title="Neil Hannon">Neil Hannon</a> of <a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy_(band)" title="The Divine Comedy (band)">The Divine Comedy</a>. It was produced by <a href="/wiki/Darren_Allison" title="Darren Allison">Darren Allison</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_Hannon" title="Neil Hannon">Neil Hannon</a> during sessions for <a href="/wiki/The_Divine_Comedy_(band)" title="The Divine Comedy (band)">The Divine Comedy</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Casanova_(The_Divine_Comedy_album)" title="Casanova (The Divine Comedy album)">Casanova</a></i> album and released on CD as a B-side to the band's 1999 single "<a href="/wiki/Gin_Soaked_Boy" title="Gin Soaked Boy">Gin Soaked Boy</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_video">The video</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The video"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the writer's commentary, the video for "My Lovely Horse" was based on a 1975 lifestyle video for "<a href="/wiki/That%27s_What_Friends_Are_For_(Eurovision_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="That's What Friends Are For (Eurovision song)">That's What Friends are For</a>" by <a href="/wiki/The_Swarbriggs" title="The Swarbriggs">The Swarbriggs</a>, which was Ireland's entry for the <a href="/wiki/1975_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="1975 Eurovision Song Contest">1975 Eurovision Song Contest</a>, which they consider the funniest music video of all time. Some of the shots are even copied down to every last detail. </p><p>The climax of the clip features the sudden appearance of the horse's head to the cacophonous wail of a saxophone, surrounded by a typically 1970s-<a href="/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">disco</a>-style burst of multi-coloured lights. Dougal and Ted wake up in horror simultaneously, with Ted panting "We have to lose that sax solo!" </p><p>The outdoor sequences were shot in the grounds of the Falls Hotel in <a href="/wiki/Ennistymon" title="Ennistymon">Ennistymon</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Clare" title="County Clare">County Clare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. In the background the cascade waterfall in <a href="/wiki/Ennistymon" title="Ennistymon">Ennistymon</a> can clearly be seen. <a href="/wiki/Steve_Coogan" title="Steve Coogan">Steve Coogan</a> was intended to play <i>compère</i> Fred Rickwood but was unavailable, so Irish comic <a href="/wiki/Jon_Kenny" title="Jon Kenny">Jon Kenny</a> was his replacement. Kenny had appeared in <i>Father Ted</i> previously, as Michael the cinema owner in "<a href="/wiki/The_Passion_of_St_Tibulus" class="mw-redirect" title="The Passion of St Tibulus">The Passion of St Tibulus</a>". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Declan_Lowney" title="Declan Lowney">Declan Lowney</a>, who directed most <i><a href="/wiki/Father_Ted" title="Father Ted">Father Ted</a></i> episodes, was also director of the <a href="/wiki/1988_Eurovision_Song_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="1988 Eurovision Song Contest">1988 Eurovision Song Contest</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Trivia plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section contains a <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trivia_sections" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections">list of miscellaneous information</a>.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Handling_trivia#Recommendations_for_handling_trivia" title="Wikipedia:Handling trivia">relocate</a> any relevant information into other sections or articles.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2020</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The scene in which Ted loses his temper at Dougal's failure to play the correct note is a reference to "<a href="/wiki/The_Troggs_Tapes" title="The Troggs Tapes">The Troggs Tapes</a>", a notorious out-take from a recording session by <a href="/wiki/The_Troggs" title="The Troggs">The Troggs</a>. In the <i>Father Ted</i> script book, Graham Linehan notes that he initially wanted the scene to run longer, but that it was ultimately cut down to just long enough for people familiar with the out-take to get the reference. </p><p>Ted mentions <i>Icy-Tea</i> and <i>Scoopy Scoopy Dog Dog</i> meaning <a href="/wiki/Ice-T" title="Ice-T">Ice-T</a> and <a href="/wiki/Snoop_Dogg" title="Snoop Dogg">Snoop Doggy Dogg</a>. </p><p>The tragic story of Nin Huugen and the Huugen Notes' deaths in a plane crash could be a reference to similar events with past musician artists such as "<a href="/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died" title="The Day the Music Died">The Day the Music Died</a>" (deaths of <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ritchie_Valens" title="Ritchie Valens">Ritchie Valens</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Bopper" title="The Big Bopper">The Big Bopper</a>) and the loss of multiple members of <a href="/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd" title="Lynyrd Skynyrd">Lynyrd Skynyrd</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1977_Convair_CV-240_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1977 Convair CV-240 crash">1977 Convair CV-240 crash</a>. </p><p>Ted mentions that there was a priest named Father Benny Cake who scored a Number 1 hit single in England – after changing his name so nobody would know he was a priest – with a song titled "<a href="/wiki/Vienna_(Ultravox_song)" title="Vienna (Ultravox song)">Vienna</a>". This joke references <a href="/wiki/Midge_Ure" title="Midge Ure">Midge Ure</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ultravox" title="Ultravox">Ultravox</a>, although in reality "Vienna" was famously kept off the British Number 1 spot by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dolce" title="Joe Dolce">Joe Dolce</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Shaddap_You_Face" title="Shaddap You Face">Shaddap You Face</a>", and Midge Ure has no connection to the priesthood. The song did reach No. 1 in Ireland, where the series is set. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A_Song_for_Ireland_1996">A Song for Ireland 1996</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: A Song for Ireland 1996"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Trivia plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section contains a <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trivia_sections" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trivia sections">list of miscellaneous information</a>.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Handling_trivia#Recommendations_for_handling_trivia" title="Wikipedia:Handling trivia">relocate</a> any relevant information into other sections or articles.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2020</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The entries for "Song for Ireland 1996" were: (only songs 1 & 2 are shown being performed; the names of 3 to 6 are seen on a sign) </p> <ol><li>"The Miracle is Mine" by Fr. Dick Byrne and Fr. Cyril McDuff</li> <li>"My Lovely Horse" by Fr. Ted Crilly and Fr. Dougal McGuire <i>(winner)</i></li> <li>"If I Could Wear My Hat Like My Heart" by The Grand Girls</li> <li>"You Dirty English Bastards" by The Hairy Bowsies</li> <li>"The Drums of Africa Are Calling Me Home" by Sean O'Brien</li> <li>"Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la" by Death Pigs</li></ol> <p>The Hairy Bowsies are a real band featuring <a href="/wiki/Paul_Woodfull" title="Paul Woodfull">Paul Woodfull</a> (aka Paul Wonderful), a comedian friend of Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews. Their songs are traditional Irish ballads with republican lyrics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The episode is often regarded as one of the most popular,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> appearing on the <i>Best Of</i> video, with one of the most memorable moments being the video for "My Lovely Horse". </p><p>In May 2014 a petition to make "My Lovely Horse" Ireland’s entry for <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurovision 2015">Eurovision 2015</a> was formally submitted to the government, but was rejected by the <a href="/wiki/Oireachtas" title="Oireachtas">Oireachtas</a> petitions committee.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Song_for_Europe_(Father_Ted)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/father-ted/articles/all/best-episode-ever-shortlist">Father Ted - 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