Phil Carrick
Phil was born and raised in Ireland in the 1950’s, enjoying and sometimes enduring a nomadic childhood that saw her family live in various parts of Offaly, Kildare, and Galway. She was educated at both UCD and Trinity College Dublin and spent a full career as a Microbiologist in Dublin Institute of Technology. In 2022 the online writing magazine, Writing.ie, published two of Phil’s memoirs in ‘Mining Memories’. The Galway Review published two of her fiction pieces, The Night Visitor and A Woman in need, in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Phil enjoys writing fiction, short prose, and poetry, and is currently working on a book of short stories.
The Galway Review: Backseat Passenger – Phil Carrick
In December 2015, a local woman from the outskirts of Portlaoise town contacted car mechanic Larry Kenton to pick up a car from her farmyard and arrange for its sale. Larry knows the farm well; a smallholding worked for years by the couple Ronan and Kathleen Quinn....
Writing.ie: The Cardboard Box – Phil Carrick
In 1957, I was two years old and had three older brothers and my first sister, Anne. My mother had five children under the age of five years, and it was her pattern to place me in the big cot for my afternoon nap; it had high sides, so my escape was impossible...