FFN Festival Speakers | 2026
About Máirtín
Senior Lecturer • Culinary Historian • Broadcaster
Máirtín is a senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is an award winning chef, author, lecturer and ballad singer. Chair of the biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, and of the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies in TU Dublin, the first such programme in Ireland.
Gastronomy Literature & Media Contributions
He is 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), and in 2021, Máirtín guest edited a special issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. He has published widely 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.
Award-Winning Publications & Academic Research
He is co-editor with Dorothy of Irish Food History: A Companion (Royal Irish Academy; EUt+ Academic Press, 2024) which was awarded the best culinary history book in the world for 2024. In 2025, he was awarded his second PhD for a thesis titled ‘Championing Food Studies within the Field of Irish Studies: An Serendipitous Autoethnographic Journey’.
See Máirtín at the Festival
Join Máirtín at the Farming for Nature Festival and hear his insights on Irish food heritage, gastronomy history, and culinary research.
