1651 in Ireland

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1651
in
Ireland

Decades:	1630s • 1640s • 1650s • 1660s • 1670s
Centuries:	15th • 16th • 17th • 18th • 19th
See also:	Other events of 1651 List of years 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.
27 October - 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.
26 November - Henry Ireton dies of fever and is succeeded in command by Edmund Ludlow.

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

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