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Ireton returned to Limerick in June 1651 and besieged the city for five months until it surrendered in October 1651.
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Ireton and returned
When Cromwell returned to England in May 1650, Waller stayed in Ireland and assisted Henry Ireton and Edmund Ludlow in completing the subjugation.
Cromwell returned to England in 1650, passing his command to Henry Ireton.
Ireton and Limerick
Ireton then advanced to Limerick by October, but had to call off the siege due to cold and bad weather.
Shortly afterwards, before he died of fever, just after the capture of Limerick, Ireton had some of the dignitaries of Limerick hanged for their obstinate defence of the city, including an Alderman, Terence Albert O ' Brien ( a Catholic Bishop ) and an English Royalist officer, Colonel Fennell.
Ireton is the main character in John Attenborough's 1987 historical fiction novel Destiny Our Choice, which gives a generally positive view of Ireton, claiming that he was influential in saving the life of Hugh O ' Neill after the siege of Limerick.
On Cromwell's departure for Scotland he co-operated with Henry Ireton, whom he joined at the siege of Limerick.
* Hugh Dubh O ' Neill, ( c. 1610-c. 1666 ), nephew of Owen Roe O ' Neill ( by his brother Art Oge ) and so grandnephew of Earl Hugh, and commander under his uncle in Ireland, where he held Limerick against Henry Ireton during a long siege.
Ireton besieged Limerick while the northern Parliamentarian army under Charles Coote besieged Galway.
* 1651: Henry Ireton besieges Limerick
Ireton took Limerick in 1651 after a long siege
Ireton besieged Limerick while Charles Coote surrounded Galway, but they were unable to take the strongly fortified cities and instead blockaded them until a combination of hunger and disease forced them to surrender.
Disease however killed indiscriminately and Ireton, along with thousands of Parliamentarian troops, died of plague outside Limerick in 1651.
Henry Ireton, went on to besiege Limerick.
* 1652 John Quinn, of Limerick, Province of Munster, 1 of 24 condemned to death by General Henry Ireton at the capitulation of Limerick.
Ireton and June
On the night before the battle of Naseby, in June 1645, Ireton succeeded in surprising the Royalist army and captured many prisoners.
In December 1647 Wildman wrote a pamphlet, Putney Projects, that attacked Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton for betraying the New Model Army's Declaration of 14 June 1647 in the Heads of Proposals.
After Oliver Cromwell's return from Ireland in June 1650, Cromwell appointed Ludlow as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command to Henry Ireton in Parliament's campaign there.
Ireton and 1651
* 1651 – Henry Ireton, English Civil War general ( b. 1611 )
Henry Ireton ( 1611 – 26 November 1651 ) was an English general in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War.
Early in 1651 Ireton ordered that areas harbouring the " tory " guerrillas should be systematically stripped of food-this policy contributed to a widespread famine in Ireland by the end of the year.
It surrendered to Ireton in 1651 during the Cromwellian period and was burned by Sarsfield in 1688 during the Williamite Wars.
Ireton and besieged
However, the following year, Henry Ireton besieged the city again, eventually forcing Hugh Dubh to surrender when the city's population was dying of hunger and plague, and part of his garrison mutinied against him.
" In 1649 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, the city was unsuccessfully besieged by Oliver Cromwell, but was forced to surrender to his Deputy, Henry Ireton, after a prolonged siege in the summer of the following year.
Ireton and city
The invasion of the forces of Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s included a twelve month siege of the city by Cromwell's New Model Army led by Henry Ireton.
Not risking an assault, Ireton systematically constructed trenches to bring his siege guns within range of the walls and stationed a Parliamentary fleet off the city to prevent its re-supply.
At the same time, Galway was under siege by Parliamentarian forces, and Ireton personally rode to inspect the command of Charles Coote, who was blockading that city.
Ireton and for
Parliament passed an order of attainder for High Treason on the four most prominent deceased regicides: John Bradshaw the court president, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and Thomas Pride.
Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Judge Thomas Pride, and Judge John Bradshaw were posthumously attainted for high treason.
On 30 October 1645 Ireton entered parliament as member for Appleby.
Ireton served under Fairfax in the second civil war in the campaigns, in Kent and Essex, although it was Fairfax, as Lord General, and not Ireton as is sometimes believed, who was responsible for the executions of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle at Colchester.
Ireton appealed to the English Parliament to publish lenient surrender terms for Irish Catholics, in order to end their resistance, but when this was refused he began the laborious process of subduing the Catholic forces.
Cromwell and Ireton's main complaint about the Agreement was that it included terms for near universal male suffrage, which Ireton considered to be anarchy.
And Ireton, for the Grandees:
The first the Agreement of the People and the other " The Heads of the Proposals ", put forward by Henry Ireton, ( son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell ) for the Army Council.
Ireton and .
Divisions emerged between various factions, culminating in Pride's Purge on 7 December 1648, when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically barred and arrested 41 of the members of Parliament.
Henry Vane the younger removed himself from Parliament in protest of this unlawful action by Ireton, and was not party to the execution of Charles I, though Cromwell was.
Lilburne, John Wildman and Richard Baxter later thought that Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton had applied the term to Lilburne's group during the Putney Debates of late 1647.
For example, Ireton asked whether the phrase in the Agreement " according to the number of the inhabitants " gave a foreigner just arrived in England and resident in a property the right to vote.
* January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
* November 26 – Henry Ireton, English Civil War leader ( b. 1611 )
For example, Henry Ireton stated, " no man hath a right to an interest or share in the disposing of the affairs of the kingdom ... that hath not a permanent fixed interest in this kingdom.
The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were subjected to the indignity of posthumous decapitations.
In January 1661, the corpses of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw were exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn.
Essex's life guard included Henry Ireton, Charles Fleetwood, Thomas Harrison, Nathaniel Rich, Edmund Ludlow, Matthew Tomlinson and Francis Russell, all of whom played a leading role in the civil war and its aftermath.
The New Model Army moved in pursuit of the Royalist army, and late in the day Commissary General Henry Ireton ( Cromwell's son in law and second in command of the cavalry ) attacked a Royalist outpost at Naseby, to the south of the main body of the King's army.
The bodies of the regicides Cromwell, Bradshaw and Ireton which had been buried in Westminster Abbey were disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered in posthumous executions.
Cromwell and his son-in-law Henry Ireton ( the New Model Army's Commissary General, or second in command of the cavalry ) were two of the only four exceptions to the Self-denying Ordinance, the other two being local commanders in Cheshire and North Wales.
He may have been drawn to the period by the fact that he was descended from Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton, but his judgements are unbiased, and his appreciations of character reveal fine perception and broad sympathies.
He was the eldest son of German Ireton of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, and was baptized in St. Mary's Church on 3 November 1611.
The wing under Ireton was completely broken by the impetuous charge of Rupert and Ireton was wounded and taken prisoner, but Cromwell charged and successfully routed the Royalists, freeing prisoners including Ireton.
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