Dark Rosaleen is the story three people from vastly different strata of Irish life, as they struggle to come to terms with the times through which they live. It is an allegory, a triune of Ireland's relationship with her artists and patriots, in the passing from the mind of colonialism to independence. Michael Rafferty is the artist and pacifist, who elucidates the terrible poignancy of the Dublin slums, the Great War, and the Irish Revolution. Patrick Leary is the university professor and revolutionary, complex and contradictory, who would risk everything for his country's freedom. Molly...