Phoenix Cricket Club

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Phoenix Cricket Club is a Dublin-based club that currently fields 5 men's teams, one women's team, three schoolboy teams and a Taverners team.

Founded in 1830, the club is the oldest in Ireland and one of the oldest in the world. John Parnell, father of the politician Charles Stewart Parnell, was one of the founding members.

The club has been based in Dublin's Phoenix Park for its entire history, apart from the period 1835–1853. During those years, Phoenix played their home games in fields near the current site of the Grand Canal near the current Upper Baggot Street. During the 1930s , 1940s and 1970s, Phoenix was the dominant club in Leinster cricket.