The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Survivor of Miami Showband Massacre during Ireland's ‘Troubles’ seeks justice
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The Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor’s Search for the Truth
by Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh
(Frontline Noir, £9.99)
ON July 31 1975 the popular group The Miami Showband were travelling back home across the border into the North of Ireland. They were stopped by a fake army patrol made up of Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers and members of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force at a fake checkpoint outside Newry.
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