 Many have a powerful sense of place, several, including "The Three Children" and "Moon and Swan", being inspired by visits to her Hickie relatives at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and another, "Shankill", by the countryside near her childhood home at Dalkey.She herself admired the poetry of F. R. Higgins and Francis Ledwidge.Although she wrote around 70 poems, only eleven were published in her lifetime, and fourteen have been published to date.