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His mother, Philomena Lynott, was born in Dublin [3] [4] and his father, Cecil Parris, was from Georgetown, British Guiana. [5] Philomena met Parris, who had moved to the United Kingdom to seek work, in Birmingham in 1948 and they were in a relationship for a few months, until Parris was transferred to London. [3]
Cecil Gerard Alexander Paris (20 August 1911 — 4 April 1998) was an amateur English first-class cricketer who played for Hampshire County Cricket Club eitherside of the Second World War, including as captain in 1938. Later in his life, he was a prominent cricket administrator.
She began a relationship with Cecil Parris, which led to Philip's birth on 20 August 1949. [4] She suffered prejudice because she did not marry Cecil Parris and was the mother of a mixed-race son, who she decided would best be raised by her parents in Dublin. [5] Lynott had two other children that she placed for adoption. [6]
Two of the founding members of Thin Lizzy, bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey, met while at school in Dublin in the early 1960s. Lynott, born on 20 August 1949 in West Bromwich, England, to an Irish mother Philomena (1930–2019) and Guyanese father Cecil Parris (1925–2010), was brought up in Dublin from the age of three. [5]
In the 1960s Parris used the cork gun design to make several types of BB guns. [13] So much of the mail to the Parris Manufacturing Company was missent to Savannah, Georgia that Cecil Parris visited the local post office and had the postmaster add "Catfish Capital of the World" to the postmark. [14]
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for people suffering from poverty and homelessness and living on the margins, has died.
According to Richard Buskin, [5] the opening line, "I remember Paris in '49", was an amendment of the line as it appeared in the original sheet music – "I remember Paris in the fall tonight" – and refers to Phil's estranged father, Cecil Parris, and his birth-year, 1949. A lament for the father he never had, dressed up in romantic nostalgia.
Terence Charles "Snowy" White (born 3 March 1948) is an English guitarist, known for having played with Thin Lizzy (permanent member from 1980 to 1982) and with Pink Floyd (as a backing guitarist from 1977 to 1980), and more recently for Roger Waters' band. [1]