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. ^[1]
• June - restart of the siege of Limerick by English Parliamentarian troops under Ireton. ^{[2] [3]}
• 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. ^[4]
• 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) ^[5]
  • 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

1. DeGryter website, Conquest and Land in Cromwellian Ireland, 1649-1642, by John Cunningham https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782040002-005
2. Your Irish website, The Seige of Limerick in 1651
3. Military Maps website, Map of the siege of Limerick 1651
4. 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. Dictionary of Irish Biography website, O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh), article by Ó Floinn, Tomás S. R.