Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is Chair of both the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies at Technological University Dublin, the first such programme in Ireland, and the biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium. Along with Dorothy Cashman, he has co-edited Irish Food History: A Companion (Royal Irish Academy, 2024), described by Darina Allen as a ‘landmark publication … where passion shines out of each and every page’
(https://arrow.tudublin.ie/irishfoodhist/1/).
Co-editor of the new European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society (https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/), Máirtín is also co-editor with Eamon Maher of ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Peter Lang: 2014) and with Rhona Richman Kenneally on ‘The Food Issue’ of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2018).
In 2018, he presented Blasta, an eight-part television series for TG4 celebrating Ireland’s food heritage. Awarded an IRC Research Ally Prize in both 2021 and 2022 for mentoring doctoral candidates, Máirtín submitted his second PhD in July 2024.