Irish ate more pork than beef, but English demands and low prices in the U.S. played a role in creating the annual holiday ...

As fungicide products become harder to come by and resistance strains continue to cause problems in potatoes guidelines need to be adhered to.

Perhaps no other food source is more closely associated with a country than potato is with Ireland. Indeed, Irish potato is a moniker often given to this important vegetable to distinguish it from ...

Although the potato isn’t really Irish, it has become Irish by association. So, this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you include ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at Dublin's Stephen's Green Shopping Center, Dublin. The exhibition was curated by historian Gerard McCarthy ...