 Carson was the author of several books about life in Derry, including "Derry Thru The Lens", "Yesterday...", "A Decade and a Half" and "So this was Derry".In the 1990s Carson was working on another publication bringing his work into the present day, but died before this project was completed.His funeral was attended by John Hume and Martin McGuinness, and Ian Paisley wrote a tribute to him in the "Belfast Telegraph" following his death in 1996.