[2] In 1947 Lynott took advantage of a viable job market in England, which needed labour to rebuild damage caused by World War II, finding work as a nurse in Manchester.

[7] In 1964 Lynott began a relationship with Dennis Keeley and the couple took over management of the Clifton Grange Hotel in Whalley Range, Manchester.

[9] When Thin Lizzy became commercially successful in the 1970s, the band looked forward to gigging in Manchester as Philomena would accommodate them and put on an after-show party.

[10] Guitarist Brian Robertson recalls Philomena insisting on washing his hair before a television appearance, and later said she was "like everyone's mum, rolled into one.

[12] In 1980 Lynott and Keeley moved to Sutton, on Howth Head, north of Dublin, into a house Philip bought for them, White Horses.

Lynott was not present at her son's bedside when he died on 4 January 1986 in Salisbury General Infirmary, having received a telephone call at her house in Kew that Philip was dead.