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.

Scientists at UC Riverside in California have discovered the genetic trigger for the Great Potato Famine in phytophthora, a genus of molds that infest potatoes, soybeans, tomatoes and avocados. It was known that phytopthora caused the potato rot but not how it took hold.

A potato museum in Peru is to highlight the story of the Irish Famine that changed the face of the country forever.

The Irish Times reports that the story of the Irish Famine and how it related to the potato will form a central part of a new international potato museum in the country.

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.

New disease-resistant potato plants can now be developed after a team of researchers has successfully cracked the full genetic code of the crop—making it the first leading crop plant to be sequenced.

Late blight, the historic fungal disease responsible for the great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s, has been found in Delaware and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Bob Geldof's daughter Peaches, 20, says her charity mad father is like an "Irish potato famine miser."

The Irish government designated May 17, 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish people throughout the world remembered and honored the victims of Ireland’s Great Hunger – which to this day remains one of the most lethal famines of the modern era. Out of a population of eight-and-a-half million, over one million people died, and approximately two million people emigrated.