Career
She was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála (Territorial Decoration) for the Waterford constituency at the 1933 general election. Her husband William Redmond represented the same constituency until his death in 1932. She was re-elected at every subsequent election until her death in 1952.
Her father-in-law was John Redmond, the Irish nationalist politician and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.