[MCDONNELL, RANDAL (1870-1944)]. Ardnaree: The Story of an English Girl in Connaught told by Herself and Edited from the Original MSS. Dublin & Waterford: M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd., 1911.

First edition. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (200 x 130 mm); pp. 227. English text. Publisher's original green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover; rough cut page edges; half-title; title-page in red and black; ads to rear; inscribed by author to ffep: "Mrs Katherine Preston, with compliments from Randal McDonnell"; Author's poem added to front pastedown. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers very clean.  Slightest hint of rolling to spine ends - points and edges otherwise sharp. Contents immaculate. Without a dust jacket.

Notes: The author's final novel is the story of an English girl living in Connacht in the years after the French landing of 1798, and incorporates the social life and political sensitivities of the period. Scarce.