How Many Died In The Great Irish Famine?

Numbers differ, and the exact number can not be known for various reasons but It was well over a million. The persecution of the English Authorities, made it much worse than needed, and a major diaspora ensued with many Irish emigrating to America, Australia, and other countries. The English exported food from Ireland during this time, but did nothing to help feed the inhabitants, with the assumed purpose of wiping out the Catholic Irish from the world. They laid the tracks for the civil unrest that is ongoing between the Catholic and the Protestant Civilians in Northern Ireland. I believe it came during a time that there was Parliamentary control and no Royal figure leading England. Sir William of Orange a fanatic protestant, lead the legislative parties, and pretty much had a free hand in his dealings with the Irish, and he instigated and put into force laws which stripped native Catholic Irish  of all land, rights, etc...while importing Protestant English and giving them the lands. This is my understanding as passed down in my family, Clan Sullivan.

Over 2.5 million