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- (during the Irish famine) a Protestant supplying food, (usually soup), to the starving if they rejected their Catholic beliefs.
- Sometimes refered to the person who had changed religions, rather than the person encouraging them.
- Some Catholics, in a desperate attempt to save the lives of their starving children, accepted this preferential treatment by converting to an alien faith and became known as 'Croghan Soupers' - named after a landed aristocracy in Roscommon. In some cases, soupers were protected by British soldiers from their co-religionists. <P>The Roles & Attitudes of Irish Protestants During the Potato Famine, Seí¡n Stitt.
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