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1651 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1651 in Ireland.

Events

  • January - Edmund Ludlow lands in Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command to Henry Ireton.
  • June - restart of the siege of Limerick by English Parliamentarian troops under Ireton.
  • July - Battle of Knocknaclashy. Irish force trying to relieve Limerick is routed.
  • August - start of the siege of Galway: an English Parliamentarian army under Charles Coote blockades the city.
  • October 27 - siege of Limerick: Hugh Dubh O'Neill surrenders Limerick after part of the English Royalist garrison mutinies. The soldiers are permitted to march unarmed to Galway but some leaders are executed.
  • November 26 - Henry Ireton dies of fever and is succeeded in command by Edmund Ludlow.

Deaths

  • October 31 - executions by the English Parliamentarians after the surrender of Limerick:
    • Terence Albert O'Brien, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly (b.1600)
    • Dominic Fanning, Alderman.
  • November 26 - Henry Ireton, English Parliamentarian commander (b.1611)
  • Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, landowner and former Irish Confederate military commander (b.1578)

References

References

  1. [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781782040002-005/pdf?licenseType=restricted&srsltid=AfmBOoqMvaaVkvxj3CD3CkYjjt1KHT0vY9AQf2KEKqxFkJlQVna__zwj DeGryter website, ''Conquest and Land in Cromwellian Ireland, 1649-1642'', by John Cunningham https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782040002-005 ]
  2. [https://yourirish.com/history/17th-century/siege-of-limerick-1651 Your Irish website, ''The Siege of Limerick in 1651'']
  3. [https://militarymaps.rct.uk/other-17th-century-conflicts/map-of-the-siege-of-limerick-1651-limerick-munster-ireland-52deg3953n-08deg3723w Military Maps website, ''Map of the siege of Limerick 1651'']
  4. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25535533.pdf JStor website, ''The Siege and Surrender of Galway 1651-1652'', article by Eamon P. Duffy, published in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 1983/1984, Vol. 39, page 115]
  5. [https://www.dib.ie/biography/obrien-terence-albert-muiris-o-briain-aradh-a6496 Dictionary of Irish Biography website, ''O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh)'', article by Ó Floinn, Tomás S. R.]
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