Parliamentarian forces in Ireland

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Parliamentarian forces in Ireland were the English Parliament’s military units deployed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms to subdue Royalist and Confederate resistance and secure control over Ireland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf armed forces of the English Parliament
military force
allegiance English Parliament
campaign Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
conflict English Civil War
Irish Confederate Wars
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
country Kingdom of England
effect dispossession of many Catholic landowners
large-scale land confiscations in Ireland
strengthening of Protestant landholding in Ireland
endTime 1650s
followedBy Cromwellian settlement of Ireland
garrisoned Cork
Derry
Dublin
Galway
Limerick
linked to: Limerick City
governingAuthority Council of State of the English Commonwealth
English Commonwealth
historicalRegion Early modern Ireland
location Ireland
notableBattle Battle of Rathmines (1649)
linked to: Battle of Rathmines

Siege of Clonmel (1650)
linked to: Siege of Clonmel

Siege of Drogheda (1649)
linked to: Siege of Drogheda

Siege of Galway (1651–1652)
linked to: Siege of Galway

Siege of Limerick (1651)
Siege of Wexford (1649)
linked to: Siege of Wexford
notableCommander Charles Coote
Henry Ireton
Michael Jones
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Venables
objective defeat Irish Confederate Catholics
secure English Parliamentary control over Ireland
subdue Royalist resistance in Ireland
opposedTo Confederate Catholics of Ireland
linked to: Irish Confederates

Irish Confederates
Royalists in Ireland
partOf Cromwellian army in Ireland
English Parliamentary army
New Model Army
religiousAspect Protestant forces fighting largely Catholic Confederates
result defeat of Confederate and Royalist forces in Ireland
establishment of English Commonwealth control in Ireland
startTime 1640s
timePeriod mid-17th century

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Munster Parliamentarian army partOf Parliamentarian forces in Ireland
Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde conflictSideOpposed Cromwellian forces in Ireland
linked to: Parliamentarian forces in Ireland