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How many people received food from soup kitchens in Ireland in 1847?
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Great Famine
Famine (1997), sculpture by Rowan Gillespie commemorating the Great Famine; in Dublin.
By August 1847, as many as three million people were receiving daily rations at soup kitchens in Ireland as part of the relief efforts during the Great Famine.