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 ...

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 ...

Schools across Ireland are being encouraged to sow Lumper potatoes this spring as a way of commemorating those who died during the Famine of the 1840s. The Lumper is a potato variety upon which ...

M&S has introduced the Lumper potato, which predates the Irish famine of the 1840s, to stores ahead of St Patrick’s Day. Potatoes went on sale in Irish stores last week but it has since upped stocks ...

The Irish Lumper was on the menu at the Boxty House in Dublin’s Temple Bar yesterday afternoon and restaurant owner Padraic Gallagher wasn’t far wrong when he described it as “a little bit of Irish ...

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 ...