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.
Writing.ie: The Drownings – Phil Carrick
We are two years old, me, and the little girl who drowned in the canal. When I close my eyes, darkness surrounds me. I am outside the house in the front garden. I cross over the road to the bank of the canal. Kneeling down I can see a little girl looking back at me...
The Galway Review: A Woman in Need
One Friday afternoon, at about ten minutes past five, I leave my workplace and turn right to head down a Dublin street towards my usual bus stop. After taking a few strides, a woman walking up the street, steps directly in front of me, blocking my path...