Tributes have been paid in the County Kerry parish of Boherbee this week to one of the country’s longest serving priests. Fr Micheal Carrick MSC (98) passed away in his adopted home of Cork City recently, incredibly, just a few months short of the 75th anniversary of his ordination.
As there was no centre of philosophical and theological studies for MSC Students in Ireland, he had to travel to Belgium where he entered the novitiate of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in September 1929.
He made his first profession on September 21, 1930 and then began his philosophical studies.
In 1931, he moved to Stein in the Netherlands where he made perpetual profession on September 21, 1933.
On August 10, 1935, he was ordained in Stein. When he completed his theological studies, he returned to Ireland and took up his first teaching post in the newly opened MSC House of Studies in Moyne Park, Co Galway where he lectured in Scripture.
For 30 years, he taught mathematics and Greek in Cork. In 1959, he was appointed to the Western Road Community where he taught until 1965.
From that time onward, he remained active in Parish ministry in Ireland, England and the USA.
He was fluent in Irish, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and over the past number of months was learning Portuguese.
As a classical scholar, especially of ancient Greece, he agreed with the playwright Aeschylus, "it is always the season for the old to learn.”
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