Culinary Arts Lecturer, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, along with students, David Malone and David Kelly, and former Cathal Brugha St student Pádraic Óg Gallagher, the Chef/Owner of Gallagher's Boxty House, were interviewed last week on RTE Six One News about the reintroduction to the retail market of the Irish lumper potato.
The Irish lumper potato was widely cultivated in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century and by the 1840s Irish farmers had become massively dependent on the potato. After potato blight caused a series of crop failures, and ultimately the Great Famine of 1845-52 during which a over a million people died, the lumper potato ceased to be cultivated in Ireland.
Now, Michael McKillop of Glens of Antrim Potatoes, who became interested in the history of the lumper potato seven years ago, has reintroduced it to the retail market and it will be available from March 11th.
To see the item on Six One News click here.
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