Book traces the Irish cultural revival through the persons of the 3 men in title. It covers foundation of Sinn Fein; the influence of Griffith on James Joyce & how Joyce thanked him in 'Ulysses'. Yeats was a close colleague of both Griffith & Joyce. After the Easter rising in 1916 the renewed Sinn Party became the dominant force in Irish politics. Griffith signed the Anglo-Irish treaty and became a Miniter before his premature death in 1922.