New Beginnings Perspectives from France and Ireland

Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a senior lecturer at Technological University Dublin, chef, culinary historian, broadcaster and ballad singer. Co-founder and chair of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, he also chairs the Masters in Gastronomy and Food Studies in TU Dublin. He co-edited «Tickling the Palate»: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Peter Lang: 2014), «The Food Issue» of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2018), and in 2021, guest edited a special issue of Folk Life on Irish food ways. Máirtín also co-edits the European Journal of Food Drink and Society. In 2021 and 2022, he was awarded a Research Ally Prize by the Irish Research Council.
Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in TU Dublin. He is General Editor of Reimagining Ireland and Studies in Franco-Irish Relations and has edited and co-edited several books in both series. He is currently working on a monograph in English on the French priest-writer Jean Sulivan (1913–1980).