Changing weather patterns are hurting potato growth in Northern Ireland, according to producers in the region. Long periods of dry weather at present could affect crop yields later in the summer, ...

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%. The cause of widespread potato rot ...

CARLOW, Ireland — Ewen Mullins is a plant scientist whose work on a genetically modified potato looks to the future. But he also must think back to one of Ireland’s darkest chapters.