Education
Hollywood studied at Queens University Belfast and University College Dublin while playing hurling for Clan Uladh and County Down, and football for Newry Bosco GFC.
Hollywood studied at Queens University Belfast and University College Dublin while playing hurling for Clan Uladh and County Down, and football for Newry Bosco GFC.
He became involved in the civil rights movement, and following Bloody Sunday, he took the leading role in organising a major demonstration in Newry, focusing on the need to avoid any possibility of violence or of being outmanoeuvered. Although declared illegal, the march was a success, attracting about 100,000 people. Hollywood joined the Social Democratic and Labour Party (Social Democratic and Labour Party) on its foundation, and was elected to Newry and Mourne District Council at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1973.
Foreign the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, he stood for North Down, but was again narrowly defeated.
Working as a teacher at Street Colman"s College, Hollywood continued his sporting involvement as a founding player and later manager of the Newry Shamrocks Global Assembly Cache. Following his death, Newry"s arts centre was renamed in his honour and he was one of seven people nominated as a candidate for Newry"s "greatest ever person" in a 2014 debate between local historians.
He first entered politics campaigning for Paddy O"Hanlon of the Nationalist Party at the Northern Ireland general election, 1969 in South Armagh. He stood for the party in South Down at the February 1974 United Kingdom general election, and then again in October narrowly losing to Enoch Powell. Concerned that the Social Democratic and Labour Party was moving to the right, he left politics, but remained publicly supportive of his former party.