The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. John Banville The premise of Rot, Padraic S.

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

epitomised extractive capitalism and its resistance to a safety net when the potato blight came. There was little admission of a connection between London’s thriving markets and Ireland’s ...

Two hundred years later, biology professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo is still thinking about the Irish Potato Famine. Or, the ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.