Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. Since the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Ireland had been mainly under the control of the Irish Confederate Catholics, who in 1649, signed an alliance with the English Royalist party, which had been defeated in the English Civil War. Cromwell defeated the Confederate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the country - bringing to an end the Irish Confederate Wars. He passed a very harsh series of Penal laws against Catholics and confisca ...

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• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links
• Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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The fall of Galway saw the end of organised resistance to the Cromwellian conquest, but fighting continued as small units of Irish troops launched guerrilla attacks on the Parliamentarians. These men were known as "tories" (from the Irish word toraidhe meaning, "pursued man"). They operated from difficult terrain such as the Bog of Allen, the Wicklow Mountains and the drumlin country in the north midlands. and within months, made the countryside extremely dangerous for all except large parties of Parliamentarian troops. Henry Ireton a ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford, Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare, famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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The following Spring, Cromwell mopped up the remaining walled towns in Ireland’s south east – notably the Confederate Capital of Kilkenny, which surrendered on terms. The New Model Army met its only serious reverse in Ireland at the siege of Clonmel, where its attacks on the towns walls were repulsed at a heavy cost. The town nevertheless surrendered the following day. Cromwell's behaviour at Kilkenny at Clonmel contrasted sharply with his conduct at Drogheda and Wexford. Despite the fact that his troops had suffered heavy casualties att ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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By the end of the period known as Confederate Ireland in 1649, the only remaining Parliamentarian outpost in Ireland was in Dublin, under the command of Colonel Michael Jones. A combined Royalist and Confederate force under James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde gathered at Rathmines, south of Dublin, in order to take the city and deprive the Parliamentarians of a port in which they could land. Jones however launched a surprise attack on the Royalists while they were deploying on August 2, putting them to flight. Around 3000 Royalist or Confedera ...

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Upon landing, Oliver Cromwell proceeded to take the other port cities on Ireland’s east coast, in order to secure an efficient supply of reinforcements and logistics from England. The first town to fall was Drogheda, about 50km north of Dublin. Drogheda was garrisoned by a regiment of 3000 English Royalist soldiers, commanded by Arthur Aston. When Cromwell’s men took the town by storm, the entire garrison and some civilians were massacred on Cromwell’s orders. Arthur Aston was famously beaten to death by the Roundheads with his own woo ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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See Also: Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and Act of Settlement 1662 Cromwell imposed an extremely harsh settlement on the Irish Catholic population. This was because of his deep religious antipathy to the Catholic religion and to punish Irish Catholics for the rebellion of 1641, in particular the massacres of Protestant settlers in Ulster. Anyone implicated in the rebellion of 1641 was executed. Those who participated in Confederate Ireland had all their land confiscated and thousands were transported to t ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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The fall of Galway saw the end of organised resistance to the Cromwellian conquest, but fighting continued as small units of Irish troops launched guerrilla attacks on the Parliamentarians. These men were known as "tories" (from the Irish word toraidhe meaning, "pursued man"). They operated from difficult terrain such as the Bog of Allen, the Wicklow Mountains and the drumlin country in the north midlands. and within months, made the countryside extremely dangerous for all except large parties of Parliamentarian troops. Henry Ireton a ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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Ormonde was discredited by the constant stream of defeats for the Irish and Royalist forces and no longer had the confidence of the men he commanded, particularly the Irish Confederates. He fled for France in December 1650 and was replaced by an Irish nobleman Ulick Burke of Clanricarde as commander. The Irish and Royalist forces were penned into the area west of the river Shannon and placed their last hope on defending the strongly walled cities of Limerick and Galway on Ireland's west coast. These cities had built extensive modern defences ...

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Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Battle of Rathmines and Cromwell’s landing in Ireland, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Siege of Drogheda, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Wexford Waterford and Duncannon, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Clonmel and the conquest of Munster, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Scarrifholis and the destruction of the Ulster Army, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Sieges of Limerick and Galway, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Guerrilla warfare famine and plague, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - The Cromwellian Settlement, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Long term results, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Notes, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - External links, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland - Main Sources

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