About

Paul Martin: Teacher, writer, editor, business consultant.

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Keynote Speaker at a seminar on Resilience, Creativity and Authenticity, Liceo Leopardi, Recanati, Italy

After graduating from UCD, Paul Martin spent much of the following decade living, working and travelling in diverse parts of the world. This included teaching and translating in Italy, working in a bank in Sydney, co-founding a start-up technology company in San Francisco, and travelling extensively in South America.

For the following 15 years Paul held management roles in the technology, engineering and non-profit sectors, where he was lead consultant on multi-million euro projects for prominent Irish universities, schools, hospitals, hospices and humanitarian organisations.

In recent years, as a qualified English, business and Italian secondary school teacher, he has managed creativity/creative writing programmes for secondary schools. He is also an occasional speaker in schools and at teacher forums in Ireland and Italy to discuss writing, the humanities, careers and education.

Paul’s education includes

  • B.A. (Hons), English & Italian (UCD)
  • Graduate Diplomas:
    • Business (UCD Smurfit Business Graduate School)
    • Professional Communications (University of California, Berkeley)
    • Life and Business Coaching (Coach Institute of Ireland)
  • Masters Degrees:
    • MSc Strategic Management (TU Dublin)
    • Professional Masters in Education, 1st class (Hibernia College)  

Paul’s three published books deal with the themes of cultural narratives and diverse perspectives. He lives with his Italian wife and three children, in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

Contact Paul on paulmartinwriter@gmail.com

Books

Village Bookshop

The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife alongside Travels with Bertha, in the Village Bookshop, Greystones

Travels with Bertha (Two Years Exploring Australia in a 1978 Ford Stationwagon), published by Liberties Press, Dublin, 2012. Described by The Irish Times as one of the “Must Read Books of 2012″.

Sifting for Gold (Poems from Distant Journeys and New Worlds), a poetry collection, published in 2014 by Original Writing, Dublin.

The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife (The Hidden War of a German-speaking Italian Family), published by Affinitá Elettive, Ancona, was launched in 2019 in Italy and in Ireland during the Dalkey Book Festival.

Please contact Paul on paulmartinwriter@gmail.com