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Potato Farming in Ireland ** Documentary by Videos of Irish Farming Life

Videos of Irish Farming Life

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This film follows the fortunes of several potato growers throughout Ireland and also gives a short history of the potato, a crop synonymous with Ireland. We look at the importance of potato growing here in Ireland, showing how the humble spud stills plays a vital role here to this day.

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Produced by Thompson Video Productions Co. Derry Northern Ireland.
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20 Comments

@larkop6504 1 year ago

Laughed when I found out my uncle did his thesis on potatoes. He had the last laugh as he owns multiple chippy's.

@bwghall1 5 years ago

spud picking in the 1940s. and diving between rows when a plane came over just in case it was the Germans. all the women shouting dive for cover, us kids loved it.

@nancymarshall3611 1 year ago

Of great interest to this Canadian with family in N. Ireland, one who married a McCurdy on Whitepark Bay. This video brought treasured memories & hopes to return.

@MariaYamadaXX 2 years ago

It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland

@koro287 1 month ago

Thanks for running aground Spain.

@patrickcodd7010 5 years ago

As an Irish man living in Australia i find your videosios so very interesting. God bless your work and. God speed the plough.

@russellrlf 5 years ago

I love these videos. It is amazing that a tuber from South America could become so important to Ireland.

@arthura.applegatejr.7145 3 years ago

I don’t understand why JD is the most prominent when James Oliver had a plow works 10 years before Deere‼️

@peteacher52 4 years ago

Helps to make sense of the relentless slog that was growing potatoes manually, fishing from currachs and maintaining a modicum of comfort that was life on the isolated Blasket Islands before 1920.

@mid-say 1 year ago

I need work in this kind of farm it makes me relaxed and happy

@debbiegamon1232 5 years ago

Why is life changing so dramatically. In three years no potatoes grown here?

@michaelgrogan 2 years ago

Love it. Well done. From Kildare

@robertstewart3638 5 years ago

Thanks that was very interesting to see how it’s changed from when I grew potatoes in the 70s

@SurprisedAlbatross-op4ik 2 years ago

Very very good and interested in it all very good

@parlainthtownie85 5 years ago

This made me so hungry. I had potatoes for lunch and now after watching this I want potatoes again.

@paddymickiemickie8221 1 year ago

Brilliant Thank you

@gburahbondo2948 4 years ago

I love Ireland

@Cibias 1 year ago

The small ones drop through, and are sold to Sainsbury's in see through bags

@duncanosborne4871 5 years ago

My dad worked on a farm in the uk they grew peas and potatoes, i can remember seeing the crowds of women arriving in the mornings picked up by the farm in the land rovers too pick the peas or potatoes i have done that as well.
Its ashame that nowadays the old ways have given way to mechanisation, as with so many people being made redundant due to the pandemic it would of given loads of work too locals