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‘Belfast Cyclops’ Hooley had anything but a quiet life championing punk during the Troubles, from launching the Undertones to being a target for refuting sectarianism

Colum Eastwood, of the SDLP, chipped in early with a quote on Twitter from Heaney’s line about his passport being green, no toast in his family ever having been raised to the Queen. Heaney wrote those lines in mockery of his inclusion in the 1982 Penguin Book of British Poetry. Britain too often claims the Irish as their own when they are doing well. And in line with that disinclination to take royal honours — though the offer must have been considered — he did not get a CBE, like his fri...