A POTATO not seen since the Irish famine is set to make a comeback, it was revealed today. The Irish Lumper, a distinctive knobbly spud, has been specially nurtured from a handful of rare seedlings ...

Glens of Antrim Potatoes is bringing a historically Irish potato back to life by commercially cultivating the Irish Lumper potato for the first time since the Famine during 1840s Ireland. Farming Life ...

IT was the 'lost potato' of Ireland's pre-famine days that almost vanished from cultivation after it was destroyed by potato blight. Now the distinctive knobbly Lumper potato is helping to forge ...

An Antrim potato farmer has re-cultivated a variety of potato at the root of the Great Famine, making it available in Ireland for the first time in almost 170 years. The nutritious "Irish Lumper" grew ...

Few events in history have been studied more than An Gorta Mor, the famine years that forever changed Ireland in the mid-19th century. In 1841, two-thirds of the Irish depended on Lumper potatoes to ...

The white potato is from the same plant family as tobacco, tomatoes, chilli peppers and aubergine. The Irish reliance on Lumper potatoes contributed to the famine. When just one variety is farmed, it ...