But the potato is still king, from chips to crisps this member of the nightshade family still plays an important part in Irish cuisine - especially when dressed with salt and vinegar.

The failure of the almost monocrop lumper potato in the mid-nineteenth century led to great population change when more than one million people died and one million more emigrated, reducing the population of Ireland by 25% within a ten-year period.

As seen here a Wicklow potato producer proudly displays his wares, called potatoes, spuds or prutas but still one of our favourite foodstuffs - don't forget it's often served multiiple ways on your plate - mashed, boiled, fried and chipped amongst others.

However you like your spuds, just add some butter, salt, and take a knife and fork and tuck in. There's no way that you don't like them.