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Northern Ireland has participated in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 5 times, debuting in the sixth contest, with their best position being 6th, achieving this at the OESC #11 contest.
History of Northern Ireland in the Own Eurovision Song Contest[]
Contestants[]
| Year | Host | Artist | Title | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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| OESC #06 |  Valletta
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Snow Patrol | "Chasing cars" | 11 | 111 | 8 | 76 |
| OESC #07 |  Soroca
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Peter Kay's & Geraldine McQueen | "The winners song" | X | X | 16 | 38 |
| OESC #09 |  Malmö
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Girls Aloud | "Love machine" | X | X | 17 | 42 |
| OESC #10 |  Copenhagen
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Snow patrol | "Chasing cars" | X | X | 11 | 56 |
| OESC #11 |  Amsterdam
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The Saturdays | "Up" | 6 | 146 | 4 | 79 |
- XX on Semi Finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country ended up in the top five in previous contest or one of the country in top five in previous year withdraws.
- XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.
 Own Eurovision Song Contest
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| Countries in Own Eurovision Song Contest | |
| Active |
Åland Islands- Andorra - Austria- Azerbaijan - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - England - FYR Macedonia- Georgia - Germany - Greece - Greenland - Hungary - Iceland - Israel - Italy - Kazakhstan - Kosovo - Lebanon - Liechtenstein - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Moldova - Montenegro - Morocco - Northern Ireland - Norway - Poland - Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden The Netherlands Turkey Ukraine Vatican City Wales |
| Inactive |
Albania - Armenia - Belarus - Estonia - Faroe Islands - Finland - France - Ireland - Latvia - Libya - Monaco - Switzerland
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| Former | United Kingdom |
| Newcomers |
Algeria - Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Tunisia |
| Host cities | |
| #00 |
Chișinău - Stockholm - Zadar - Košice - Brussels - Valletta - Soroca - Oslo - Malmö |
| #10 |
Copenhagen - Amsterdam - Andorra la Vella |
| Contests |
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| #01 - #02 - #03 - #04 - #05 - #06 - #07 - #08 - #09 - #10 - #11 - #12 |