February 1st, 1847: Replacing the public works with soup ... Irish distress, Trevelyan admits, "appears now to have completely overflowed the barriers we opposed to it ... This is a real famine ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an ... to be sold cheaply in Ireland to limit starvation. Soup kitchens and public work programmes were also set up.