Contents

• Events
• Deaths
• References

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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