Fresh off a divorce from his wife, Janet Rigsbee, and newly engaged to Carol Guida, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, Van Morrison (now Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison, OBE) went to Ireland in 1974 where he wrote in less than three week’s time the songs included on his eighth studio album, “Veedon Fleece” sometimes called Morrison’s  “forgotten masterpiece.”  The album cover photograph taken by photographer, Tom Collins, showed Morrison and a couple of local Irish Wolfhounds adjacent to the Sutton House Hotel, a converted mansion overlooking Dublin Bay where Morrison first stayed upon arriving in Ireland for his vacation.  Some say the dogs were used as a shorthand for “Irishness.” It worked.