The Years 1994 — Reeling In

: Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with "Rock 'n' Roll Kids," marking Ireland's third consecutive victory.

On the British and Irish charts, Wet Wet Wet’s cover of Love Is All Around from the film Four Weddings and a Funeral refused to leave the number one spot. It felt like it played for the entire summer. But below the surface, rebellion was brewing. Ireland’s own The Cranberries released No Need to Argue , featuring the haunting anti-war anthem Zombie , a direct response to the IRA bombings in Warrington. Meanwhile, Portishead’s Dummy invented trip-hop for late-night listens, and Lisa Loeb scored the first number-one single as an unsigned artist with Stay (I Missed You) . reeling in the years 1994

It was a year defined by extremes: the extreme connectivity of the internet and the extreme isolation of tragedy. As the year closed, the world stood on the precipice of the 21st century, unaware : Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won the