Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire

Who is Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire?

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is an Irish Lecturer and professional chef.

A native of Blackrock, County Dublin, Mac Con Iomaire was awarded Ireland’s first PhD on food history, in October 2009. He attended Coláiste Eoin secondary school in Stillorgan finishing his Leaving Cert in 1986. He went on to UCD where he spent one academic year. In that time, Máirtín was a keen member of UCD Boxing club. In his college summers, he worked on Cape Cod in the famous Kennedy Compound.

Since 1999 he has been a lecturer in the culinary Arts in the Dublin Institute of Technology. He was the first Irish chef to earn a PhD for his Oral History of Dublin Restaurants 1900-2000 titled 'The Emergence, Development and Influence of French Haute Cuisine on Public Dining in Dublin Restaurants 1900-2000: An Oral History'. Mac Con Iomaire trained at Dublin Institute of Technology, Cathal Brugha Street. From there, he began working in Dublin restaurants specialising in haute cuisine. Máirtín is well known as an award winning chef, culinary historian, food writer, broadcaster and ballad singer.