1651 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.
- 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.
- 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
- *Dominic Fanning, Alderman.
- November 26 - Henry Ireton, English Parliamentarian commander
- Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, landowner and former Irish Confederate military commander