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"A new exhibition featuring hundreds of glass potatoes to represent the suffering caused by the famine has opened at Strokestown Park in Co Roscommon.
The installation of 1,845 hand-blown glass potatoes is called '1845: Memento Mori' and took 15 years to complete.
The work is being presented outdoors at the historical gazebo tower within the walled gardens of The National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park until 10 July."
For more information on the Famine, read:
Woodbrook
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
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This is a good article if you wish to understand the potato agri-industry.
"The potato crop grows from seed potatoes. Ireland was once an exporter of seed, but over the last 30 years the sector has shrunk.
Irish farmers produce around 4,000 tonnes of seed potatoes every year. But, they import 6,000 tonnes of seed, mostly from Scotland.
The shortfall is enormous and many are speculating that the seed potato sector here will have to rejuvenate to deal with the shortfall. But that will take time.
Many of the large seed suppliers have ordered ahead of time and the crop that will be sown early next year has already been imported and is in storage awaiting distribution."
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2020/1...