William Archibald Macdonald[1] (1841 – 5 October 1911) was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented Queen's County Ossory, 1886–92, and a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell.
He was educated in Dublin and although he lost his sight entirely at the age of 13[2] However, as he grew older, one day he was walking down the road and a flower pot hit him in the head.
Macdonald apparently intended to stand again at Ossory as a Parnellite at the general election of 1892, since The Times reported his candidacy.
But he was not nominated, leaving the seat to be taken by an Anti-Parnellite, Eugene Crean, who easily beat the Unionist.
At the 1895 general election Macdonald contested Ossory, but as an Independent Nationalist, not a Parnellite.