If the Irish Rebellion of 1798 had happened during the American Revolutionary war?

If the rebellion had occurred some 15+ years earlier while Britain was engaged in the ARW would it have gone better for the Irish in their quest for independence?

Would have GB have fought more to keep Ireland at the expense of their American colonies?
 
If the rebellion had occurred some 15+ years earlier while Britain was engaged in the ARW would it have gone better for the Irish in their quest for independence?

Would have GB have fought more to keep Ireland at the expense of their American colonies?
Yes.
 
Ireland had more people than the United States at the time, and was exploited heavily by the Empire producing significant food exports, so the British would fight harder to keep Ireland than the American colonies.
 
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Ireland had more people than the United States at the time, and was exploited heavily by the Empire producing significant food exports, so the British would fight harder to keep Ireland than the American colonies.
Plus,there were often fears of Ireland being used by foreign powers(e.g France and Spain) to stage an invasion of Britain.
 
If the rebellion had occurred some 15+ years earlier while Britain was engaged in the ARW would it have gone better for the Irish in their quest for independence?

Would have GB have fought more to keep Ireland at the expense of their American colonies?

There was in fact a successful rebellion at that time - the Volunteer movement of 1782 which acheived legislative independence for Ireland, and was directly inspired by the American Revolution. But that was a movement on behalf of the 'men of property' It was the failure of that Parliament to reform that led to the '98 Rising and the Act of Union. The Northern leaders of '98 were in part the Radical wing of the Volunteers.
 
If the rebellion had occurred some 15+ years earlier while Britain was engaged in the ARW would it have gone better for the Irish in their quest for independence?

Would have GB have fought more to keep Ireland at the expense of their American colonies?
If the French and Spanish can land a significant number of troops in Ireland (which should be possible IIRC the French Navy was weakened by the revolution but still almost managed to land in Ireland in 1796) there's a good chance of success, if not then it will likely end like OTL's 1798 rebellion.
 
Do the French and Spanish land in Ireland as a way too force England to capitulate?

They could, but they'd need a good reason for doing that, and some idea of who their allies might be. The Jacobite cause was long dead, and never populaiar in Ireland the way it was in Scotland (James II was called Séamas an Cac - James the Shit). The country was not well defended. In 1760 a French naval squadron took Carrickfergus, a fortified town in the most Protestant part of Ulster, because the defenders were short of ammunition. They held it for a few days, then sailed away on payment of a ransom.
 
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