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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A long lost variety of Irish potato is being grown in potato beds in 12 schools across the north west. The Irish Lumper was thought to have been cultivated all over Ireland before 1840 but was wiped ...

The Irish Lumper was so productive that by 1845 it was the primary food for 40 percent of that country's population. Before its introduction the Irish diet was a blend of small grains and milk. The ...