8 min read With input from the late Dublin rock starâs close friends and family, Emer Reynoldsâs new film, Songs for While Iâm Away, puts forward a different narrative about the Thin Lizzy frontman
Most of us have been saying Philip Lynottâs name wrong. Even Emer Reynolds, director of an entertainingly celebratory new film about him, Songs for While Iâm Away, struggles with the actual pronunciation.
âI canât get my brain rewired,â she says. âMe and everyone else in Dublin have called him Phil
Linnet forever. Lynott [lie-not] is the correct pronunciation of his name. Philip always corrected everyone. He used to say âWhy not? Lie-notâ and his grandmother used to say [of their second name] âWeâre not a family of little birdsâ. But Dubliners just have their own way of doing things. And he preferred âPhilipâ. He didnât mind âPhiloâ, I believe, but he didnât like âPhilâ. Bu