Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a professional chef, food historian, broadcaster and a senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is co-founder and chair of the biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, former trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and currently course chair of the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies in TU Dublin, the first such programme in Ireland.
He is co-editor with Eamon Maher of ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Peter Lang: 2014), New Beginnings: Perspectives from France and Ireland (Peter Lang: 2023), and with Rhona Richman Kenneally on ‘The Food Issue’ of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2018), and in 2021, Máirtín guest edited a special issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, conference proceedings and encyclopaedias, and is a regular contributor on food history, chefs and restaurants in the media.
In 2018, he presented an eight-part television series for TG4 called ‘Blasta’ celebrating Ireland’s food heritage.
Along with Michelle Share and Dorothy Cashman, he is co-editor of the new European Journal of Food Drink and Society.
He is co-editor on the award-winning Irish Food History: A Companion (Royal Irish Academy; EUt+ Academic Press, 2024).
In 2025, he was awarded his second PhD on championing food studies within the field of Irish Studies.
