Ireland experienced decades of pain and suffering, with two major events causing a mass exodus in the country, the Famine and The Troubles.

During The Troubles, car, home and business bombings were the usual and people were murdered daily, while the fight between the two sides of the Island fought.

The only escape that citizens had was music. Dance halls and nightclubs around the country were filled nightly with more than 700 showbands touring during the 1960s-1980s.

One band, the Miami Showband, was very popular and was known to please everyone, as they did not have any religious or political messages in their music and the band was formed with Catholics and Protestants, and Republican-born or Northern Ireland-born members, showing that unity was possible.

Until one night when they were stopped by authorities for what they thought was the British Army when things exploded and many labelled that event as the "night that the music died in Ireland".