Rosa Mulholland

Mulholland, Rosa (Lady Gilbert) (1841-1921), novelist. She was born into a Belfast medical family and became the wife of Sir John Gilbert. Her novels seek to advance a version of Irish Catholic life acceptable to Victorian sensibilities. An early success, The Wild Birds of Killeevy (1883), shows Irish people holding their own in international adventure. Marcella Grace (1886) sees the creation of a Catholic gentry as a solution to the Land War [see Land League].