An Irish novelist, poet and playwright
Biography: substiantially based on an item in Wikipedia
She was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Stevenson Mulholland and his wife Maria Coleman Mulholland of Newry, Co. Down. She spent some years in a remote mountainous part of the West of Ireland after the death of her father. Her first novel was "Dumana" (1864), under the pen-name "Ruth Murray". She originally wished to become a painter, but in her early literary life she received much help and encouragement from Charles Dickens, who highly valued her work as a writer and persuaded her to continue.
Among her female friends with whom she shared many interests were Sarah Atkinson and Charlotte O'Conor Eccles.
In 1891 she married John Thomas Gilbert, the Dublin antiquary and historian. They lived at Villa Nova, Blackrock, County Dublin. She became Lady Gilbert on his knighthood in 1897.
She produced a great number of novels and wrote a biography of her husband in 1905. She died in Dublin in 1921.
Other details.
Rosa Mulholland of 48 Upper Gardiner Street Dublin, daughter of Joseph Mulholland and Maria Coleman, married John T. Gilbert of Villa Nova, Blackrock, son of John Gilbert and Mary Anne Costello, at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on 29th May 1891.
The register notes that his parents were dead, hers were noted as living at 86, Harley Street, London. [this may be incorrect].
Her sister
Ellen Mulholland Russell
married
Charles Arthur Russell otherwise Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 1894-1900.
Another sister, Clara, was a novelist.
An Irish novelist, poet and playwright
Biography: substiantially based on an item in Wikipedia
She was born in Belfast, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Stevenson Mulholland and his wife Maria Coleman Mulholland of Newry, Co. Down. She spent some years in a remote mountainous part of the West of Ireland after the death of her father. Her first novel was "Dumana" (1864), under the pen-name "Ruth Murray". She originally wished to become a painter, but in her early literary life she received much help and encouragement from Charles Dickens, who highly valued her work as a writer and persuaded her to continue.
Among her female friends with whom she shared many interests were Sarah Atkinson and Charlotte O'Conor Eccles.
In 1891 she married John Thomas Gilbert, the Dublin antiquary and historian. They lived at Villa Nova, Blackrock, County Dublin. She became Lady Gilbert on his knighthood in 1897.
She produced a great number of novels and wrote a biography of her husband in 1905. She died in Dublin in 1921.
Other details.
Rosa Mulholland of 48 Upper Gardiner Street Dublin, daughter of Joseph Mulholland and Maria Coleman, married John T. Gilbert of Villa Nova, Blackrock, son of John Gilbert and Mary Anne Costello, at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on 29th May 1891.
The register notes that his parents were dead, hers were noted as living at 86, Harley Street, London. [this may be incorrect].
Her sister
Ellen Mulholland Russell
married
Charles Arthur Russell otherwise Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 1894-1900.
Another sister, Clara, was a novelist.
Inscription
pray for the soul of
SIR JOHN THOMAS GILBERT LL.D., F.S.A.I.
Vice President of the Royal Irish Academy
Irish Historian
born 23rd January 1829 died 23rd May 1898
honoured and beloved
his life was devoted to Ireland
in the research for truth in her history
and the defence of the catholic faith
her light in darkest days.
ROSA MULHOLLAND GILBERT
wife of the above died at Villa Nova
Blackrock, Co, Dublin 21st April 1921
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