 | This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2025) |
| |||||
| Centuries: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decades: | |||||
| See also: | Other events of 1651 List of years in Ireland | ||||
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
- ^ DeGryter website, Conquest and Land in Cromwellian Ireland, 1649-1642, by John Cunningham https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782040002-005
- ^ Your Irish website, The Siege of Limerick in 1651
- ^ Military Maps website, Map of the siege of Limerick 1651
- ^ 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
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography website, O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh), article by Ó Floinn, Tomás S. R.
