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Dispatch from Belfast: What Van Morrison tells us about in ‘The Healing Game’

Birthplace and childhood residence of singer-songwriter George Ivan Morrison, Hyndford Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Today, on the eve of the Van Morrison concert at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, I took a tour they call “The Mystic of the East,” the tour of his childhood haunts. I saw where he was born on Hyndford Street, his elementary school, Orangefield Academy and Cyprus Avenue, where I was to…