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Events from the year1651 in Ireland.

• January -Edmund Ludlow lands in Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command toHenry Ireton.^[1]
• June - restart of thesiege 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 thesiege of Galway: an English Parliamentarian army underCharles 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 toGalway but some leaders are executed.
• November 26 -Henry Ireton dies of fever and is succeeded in command byEdmund Ludlow.

• October 31 - executions by the English Parliamentarians after the surrender of Limerick:
  • Terence Albert O'Brien,Roman CatholicBishop 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)

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