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Events on Sunday 15 August 1649 1
1649Cromwell Lands in IrelandStart of the Cromwellian conquest of IrelandOliver Cromwell landed at Dublin on 15 August 1649 with a parliamentary army to crush Irish Confederate and Royalist resistance. The campaign that followed was marked by brutal sieges and is remembered in Ireland for its lasting devastation. It would continue until 1653.