 In 1962 she recorded her only LP, "The Queen of Connemara", for Irish Prestige Records, New York, on the cover of which her name appears alongside the LP title.During World War II, she aided Vatican official, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, in saving the lives of 6,500 Allied soldiers and Jews, while her husband, Dr. Thomas J. Kiernan, was the Irish Ambassador in Rome from 1941–46.She was born in Ardroe, Roundfort, County Mayo, Ireland to a well-off family.