About
Phil Carrick was born and raised in Ireland in the 1950s. She was educated at both UCD and Trinity College Dublin and spent a full career in education. Since raising her family of three and retiring early in 2015, Phil has married for the second time and embraced her life-long ambition to publish her writing.
Currently, she is working on a book of short stories and a novel. Phil enjoys writing poetry and fiction and is a member of the Rathmines Writer Workshop, Dublin, Ireland.
Mining Memories is about living history and helps build the National Folklore Collection to reflect the lives of Irish people.
The Galway Review, 2025, The Christmas Tree. 2024, The Haunting of Dinsmortan House. 2022, The Bicycle Shed and Backseat Passenger. 2021, A Woman in Need. 2020, The Night Visitor.
Irelands Own, 2006, The First Communion Lie.
In the Poetry Collection “2020 Visions” published by Dublin’s Ballymun Library writing group, Phil contributed three poems: Buried Crime, Our Sky is Heavens Eye and Notre Dame De Paris. Fish Publications, Cork, long listed a memoir in 2019 and a short story in 2020.
Publications
Mining Memories, Writing.ie, 2025; My Local Park. 2022, The Cardboard Box and The Drownings.Mining Memories is about living history and helps build the National Folklore Collection to reflect the lives of Irish people.
The Galway Review, 2025, The Christmas Tree. 2024, The Haunting of Dinsmortan House. 2022, The Bicycle Shed and Backseat Passenger. 2021, A Woman in Need. 2020, The Night Visitor.
Irelands Own, 2006, The First Communion Lie.
In the Poetry Collection “2020 Visions” published by Dublin’s Ballymun Library writing group, Phil contributed three poems: Buried Crime, Our Sky is Heavens Eye and Notre Dame De Paris. Fish Publications, Cork, long listed a memoir in 2019 and a short story in 2020.