Randal [William] McDonnell

McDonnell, Randal [William] (1870-?1930), bibliophile and novelist. Born in Dublin and educated at TCD, he was for a time assistant librarian at Marsh's Library at St Patrick's Cathedral. His novels, such as Kathleen Mavourneen (1905), When Cromwell Came to Drogheda (1906), My Sword for Patrick Sarsfield (1907), and Ardnaree (1911), often use the device of editing supposedly contemporary accounts of 17th- or 18th-cent. events.