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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 pink. “I have always been obsessed with undergarments being worn on the outside,” the young design...

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 for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use ...

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 and everyone else in Dublin have called him Phil Linnet forever. Lynott [lie-not] is the correct pron...

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 I'm 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 Ireland in the 1960s, he was the mixed-race rock 'n’ roll flamingo who glided nimbly outta Crumlin and ...

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 with Irish mythology in remarkable fashion. “Down from the glen came the marching men with thei...