Clara Mulholland

Born in Belfast in 1844, Clara Mulholland was an Irish novelist who wrote for both adults and younger readers. She contributed to periodicals and went on to publish many popular books, often set in Ireland and shaped by domestic life, faith, and moral choice.

Her work found a particularly strong readership among Catholic families and magazines, and she became known for fiction that was accessible, earnest, and full of incident. Among the titles associated with her are Naughty Miss Bunny, The Late Miss Hollingford, and Banshee Castle.

Mulholland died in 1924. Though not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, she was a prolific and successful writer in her time, with a body of work that gives a vivid sense of popular Irish and Catholic fiction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.