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 ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. ..

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

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 ...

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

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

Take some time to remove all the tubers, not matter how tiny, or they'll grow next year and disrupt that year's crops. Potato blight or 'late blight' is a devastating fungus disease that spreads ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

As the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Los Patricios, a group of immigrants, took up arms for Mexico to defend their ...