WI: Irish victory at the Battle of Kinsale

Suppose that the irish rebel forces and their spanish assistants manage to defeat elizabethan England at the Battle of Kinsale, in 1601 AD. What happens next?
Could we see a spanish-friendly independent Ireland, even if for a short period of time?
Who would become the King of Ireland?
 
There's a good chance England may leave Ireland should they lose at Kinsale, most of the battles in the Nine Years War had ended in an Irish victory and England was nearing bankruptcy, Kinsale might have been the last throw of the die. If they do lose all of their land in Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland could very well survive especially with Spanish and/or French protection, an invasion against a united Irish kingdom would be much harder than it was against a disunited Ireland.

Hugh O'Neill would be the most likely candidate for a new King of Ireland after his victory, especially as many High Kings in the pasts had been O'Neills.
 
Hugh O'Neill would be the most likely candidate for a new King of Ireland after his victory, especially as many High Kings in the pasts had been O'Neills.

Really? I'd have thought Philip III might have taken the Irish crown for himself (from his father's claim from his marriage to Mary Tudor) and then left it to one of his future sons.
 
Reviving thread.
If the Irish become a spanish-aligned state and the spanish acquire an advantage in the Bay of Biscay and the Celtic Sea, i wonder how Henry IV's France would react.
Also, would the spanish attempt a second raid on Cornwall, aiming at the Scilly Islands?
 
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