Editing Van Morrison (section)

===The Troubles===
Morrison left Northern Ireland before [[The Troubles]] started and distanced himself from the conflict, although later "yearned for" Protestant and Catholic reconciliation.<ref>''The Words and Music of Van Morrison'', Erik Hage, p. 6.</ref> In 1972, he gave an interview with the Dublin-based magazine ''Spotlight'', in which he said, "I'm definitely Irish ... I don't think I want to go back to Belfast. I don't miss it with all the prejudice around. We're all the same and I think it's terrible what's happening. But I'd like to get a house in Ireland ... I'd like to spend a few months there every year."<ref>Johnny Rogan, ''Van Morrison: No Surrender'' (London: Secker & Warburg, 2005), p. 273.</ref>