The Hungry Death by Rosa Mulholland

Rosa Mulholland (1841 – 1921) was born in Belfast. She was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright.

She started her literary career at a young age, attempting to publish her first book aged 15. Later in her career, she received encouragement from Charles Dickens, who valued her writing and included her work in his periodicals.

Mulholland married John Thomas Gilbert, a well-known historian, in Dublin in 1891.

As well as being a poet and short story writer, Mulholland produced many novels and wrote a biography of her husband, who died in 1898. Mulholland herself died in 1921. She is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

The Hungry Death is taken from her collection The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and other stories (1891).