 She worked at Hillside Convent, Farnborough, and considered becoming a nun, beginning a one-year noviciate with the Oblates of St Benedict, Ventnor.On the death of her mother in 1904, she returned to Cork to look after the younger members of her family, and took a post at St Angela's where she had been a pupil.She attended the first meeting of the Munster Women's Franchise League, becoming a committee member.