Paul Clements is a writer, journalist and tutor. He spent 27 years working for the BBC in Belfast and London before leaping into the freelance world in 2007. He has written two travel books about Ireland, The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip (2005) and Irish Shores: A Journey Round the Rim of Ireland (1993).

A contributing editor to two renowned travel guidebooks: Insight and Fodor's, he has researched and written essays for Insight Guide Ireland (2008) specializing on the west coast, and on the midlands, northwest and Northern Ireland for Fodor's Ireland (2009). He has written widely about the writer and historian Jan Morris and his work includes a critical study published in 1998, and a Festschrift, Jan Morris, Around the World in Eighty Years, published in 2006 in honour of her 80th birthday.

Paul's work has appeared in the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Escape, the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, Planet, the Welsh Internationalist, Verbal Arts, and The Irish Book Review.

Paul lives in Belfast and spends part of each year in the west of Ireland researching, writing, climbing hills, and squeezing in a pint or two. More recently, he has been a frequent visitor to France where he is attracted, not only by the wine, but to the cultural history and enjoying what the French call la douceurde vivre better known perhaps under its Italian equivalent la dolce vita.

He is a Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford, and a member of the National Union of Journalists, the Society of Authors, and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.

Official Web Site: www.paulclementswriting.com