Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

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The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland was a brutal 17th-century military campaign led by Oliver Cromwell that brought Ireland under English Parliamentarian control through widespread sieges, massacres, and land confiscations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conquest
military campaign
war
belligerent Catholic Irish forces
Parliamentarians
surface form: English Parliamentarians

Irish Confederates
Royalists
cause English Civil War power struggle
fear of Irish Catholic alliance with Royalists
characterizedBy forced population displacement
land confiscations
massacres
religious persecution of Catholics
sieges
commander Edmund Ludlow
Henry Ireton
Oliver Cromwell
conflictIn Irish Confederate Wars
demographicConsequence large civilian casualties
widespread famine and disease
economicConsequence confiscation of estates of Irish Catholic landowners
mass transfer of land from Catholic to Protestant ownership
endTime 1653
followedBy Cromwellian conquest of Ireland self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cromwellian land settlement of Ireland
hasPart Siege of Wexford
surface form: Sack of Wexford

Siege of Clonmel
Siege of Drogheda
Siege of Galway
Siege of Kilkenny
Siege of Limerick
Siege of Waterford
Siege of Wexford
Siege of Drogheda
surface form: Storming of Drogheda
historicalReputation major trauma in Irish historical memory
notorious for brutality
legalConsequence Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652
Act of Satisfaction 1653
location Ireland
opposingCommander Hugh Dubh O’Neill
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
Owen Roe O'Neill
surface form: Owen Roe O’Neill

Thomas Preston
Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
partOf Wars of the Three Kingdoms
politicalConsequence end of Confederate Ireland
incorporation of Ireland into the Commonwealth of England
suppression of Royalist resistance in Ireland
result English Parliamentarian control of Ireland
Parliamentarian victory
defeat of Irish Confederate and Royalist forces
startTime 1649

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Siege of Clonmel partOf Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Siege of Limerick (1651) partOf Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Siege of Limerick (1651) relatedEvent Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Munster wasSceneOf Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Early Modern Ireland hasPart Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Early Modern Ireland significantEvent Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Early Modern Ireland mainConflict Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Interregnum conflict Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
English Commonwealth militaryConflict Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Irish Confederates dissolvedFollowing Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Irish Catholic Confederation dissolvedFollowing Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Cromwell’s letters to the English Parliament timePeriod Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Cromwell’s letters to the English Parliament mainSubject Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
this entity surface form: Irish campaign of Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell’s letters to the English Parliament mainSubject Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Cromwell’s letters to the English Parliament describesEvent Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
this entity surface form: Cromwell’s Irish campaign (1649–1650)
Cromwell’s letters to the English Parliament relatedTo Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland dissolvedAfter Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Battle of Rathmines followedBy Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Wexford wasBesiegedDuring Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Siege of Waterford partOf Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Siege of Waterford isPartOfCampaign Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
this entity surface form: Cromwell’s 1649 Irish campaign
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland followedBy Cromwellian conquest of Ireland self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cromwellian land settlement of Ireland
History of County Cork includesEvent Cromwellian conquest of Ireland