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 ...

I have planted potatoes several years and enjoy eating the young spuds. Mid-March is the time to start planting. You can grow them in garden beds or in a large ...

Ten Dalhousie graduate students successfully squeezed hundreds of pages of research into 180 seconds flat to clinch their ...

“This is Mostrim” is a trilogy, commencing with The Famine. Set at the onset of the potato blight the work is a fictional ...

Each clover represents something different.” Harper held up a green four-leaf clover that she had drawn and cut out for her ...

Tomatoes are the most popular plant to grow and a gardening expert has shared that it's currently the best time to start ...

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

As spring approaches, farmers across the state prepare for potato season — the planting process begins after the last hard ...

Two consignments of ware potatoes imported from Poland have tested positive for ring rot, a notifiable disease that could ...

In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers the definitive account of the Great Famine, showing how Ireland's place in the ...

The benefits of chitting the seed potatoes of maincrop varieties, which are much longer in the ground and generally far slower to crop (typically 16-22 weeks) is even more debatable. Most experts ...