S8 Ep231: 12. The Irish Dimension: Revolutionary Hopes and Brutal Repression. The Irish viewed the American Revolution as a signal that the British Empire was vulnerable, sparking the failed 1798 Iris

12. The Irish Dimension: Revolutionary Hopes and Brutal Repression. The Irish viewed the American Revolutionas a signal that the British Empire was vulnerable, sparking the failed 1798 Irish rebellion. While the British suppressed Irish independence brutally under Cornwallis, Irish immigrants and Scots-Irish settlers like Andrew Jackson fervently supported the Continental Army against the Crown. 1780 GORDON RIOTS