Career
She had her clinical instruction at the Richmond Hospital in Dublin and the London School of Medicine for Women. After graduating medical school, she worked at the Homerton Fever Hospital in London for a year, and then worked at the Richmond Asylum (later called Grangegorman) in Ireland for 27 years. She eventually became deputy medical director there.
From 1921 until 1926 she worked at Portrane Asylum in Donabate, and then she retired.
She was arrested in 1921 by Irish state forces for being involved in an assistance and escape program for anti-treaty prisoners which was centered on the asylum at Portrane. After she was released she returned to her work at the asylum.