Dominick Behan's "The Patriot Game" may have been written in 1958, but I don't believe you can tie it to any rebellion or other political event at that late date -- except maybe for the always-ongoing and still-unresolved general overall troubles.

Most Irish histories that I've read point to the arrival of the "Norman knights" in 1169 as the beginning of English/British interference with Irish independence. I think.

Contending that the Church of England is really Catholic ("Anglo-Catholic") rather than Protestant is really stetching a point, isn't it? If that were true in any meaningful sense (not just academically), why have so many people been so upset for so many years?