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John Mangru With his hyper-feminine designs, which bring silhouette and form to the fore, stylist John Mangru — National College of Art and Design’s graduate class of 2020 — is determined to rewrite the codes of modern dressing. Just take a look at the emerging designer’s Instagram account, where you’ll find a smorgasbord of visual goodies — most notable are Mangru’s recognisable handmade corsets — in a fizzy colour palette of fire-engine red, zingy neon green and candyfloss pi...

Phil Lynott film director on the surprising revelations in new documentary The rocker never hid, played down, or was shy about his love for Dublin Phil Lynott Singer of Thin Lizzy singing on stage playing guitar Want the latest breaking news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations ...

8 min read With input from the late Dublin rock star’s close friends and family, Emer Reynolds’s new film, Songs for While I’m Away, puts forward a different narrative about the Thin Lizzy frontman Most of us have been saying Philip Lynott’s name wrong. Even Emer Reynolds, director of an entertainingly celebratory new film about him, Songs for While I’m Away, struggles with the actual pronunciation. “I can’t get my brain rewired,” she says. “Me an...

Director Emer Reynolds Starring Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham, Adam Clayton, John Kelly, Huey Lewis, James Hetfield, Jim Fitzpatrick, Cathleen Howard-Lynott, Sarah Lynott, Caroline Taraskevics Emer Reynolds presents a poetic and loving portrait of the Thin Lizzy hero in Phil Lynott: Songs for While Im Away but glosses over the full story Did anyone ever have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Well, how could anyone have a bad word to say about Phil Lynott? Seemingly the only black kid in Irelan...

Even those of us who lived through Phil Lynott’s high period have trouble believing such a man ever existed. Internationally acknowledged Irish rock stars were, in the years before U2 and the Boomtown Rats, as rare as internationally acknowledged Irish Starfleet commanders. In that depressingly monocultural era, his mixed-race background only added to the implausibility. And the records he made with Thin Lizzy still sound excellent. Johnny the Fox and Jailbreak merged American street life ...

“Phil wasn’t supposed to die at all. He was pretty much the Iron Man,” remembers guitarist Scott Gorham. It will be 35 years next month since Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott tragically died from heart failure, and yet his legacy is still very much alive. The documentary film Songs for While I’m Away offers insights into the life and music of one of Ireland’s greatest rock stars, and will be released on St Stephen’s Day. The Dublin native penned iconic floor fillers such as The Bo...

Updated / Friday, 18 Dec 2020 09:58 Peter Lynott at the unveiling of new plaque in honour of his nephew, Phil A Dublin City Council commemorative plaque to Phil Lynott has been unveiled at the house in Crumlin, Dublin, where the late Thin Lizzy front man where grew up. Phil’s uncle Peter Lynott, Emer Reynolds, director of upcoming Phil Lynott documentary Songs for While I’m Away, and Cllr Vincent Jackson were present at the unveiling of the plaque in his honour on his childhood home on Le...

People often talk about the impact Irish musicians have had on our national self-confidence over the years, whether it’s U2’s dragon-slaying in America, Enya’s sonic ubiquity in the late 1980s, or The Boomtown Rats’ first appearance on Top of the Pops. But before any of them, and long before the dreaded boy bands, there was Philo. From the moment Thin Lizzy first appeared on Top of the Pops in 1973 having scored an unlikely hit with the traditional song Whiskey in the Jar, Phil Lynott...

It didnt seem real that Thin Lizzy would be no more:the magic of Phil Lynott  Irish director Emer Reynolds has produced an impressive homage to her hero  Songs for While I’m Away: Phil Lynott and Brian Robertson and performing live onstage. Picture: Fin Costello/Redfern Fri, 25 Dec, 2020 - 20:00 Esther McCarthy Emer Reynolds can still vividly remember the emotion in the venue as she watched Thin Lizzy’s last-ever Irish gig. It was the spring of 1983 in Dublin’s RDS, and as the band pla...