[2][3][4] In 1872, Hart, along with Rose Minshull and Louisa Stammwitz, successfully petitioned for women to be allowed to use the laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

By the end of 1883 the Donegal Industrial Fund had been founded with £50 capital and contacts in London for a market for knits.

Classes were held all over the country teaching the embroidery of flax on linen using designs from Irish manuscripts and Japanese art.

She had paintings shown in both the Dudley and Dowdeswell galleries as well as being commended by the Magazine of Art in 1895 for her far east landscapes.

[2][3][4][11][13][16] The Kells schools produced household items which were displayed at the London International Inventions Exhibition in 1885 where they won a gold medal.

Farm labourers from Donegal were brought to train in the Regent St. Polytechnic until the workshop was opened in Gweedore in October 1891.

[22] The Donegal Industrial Fund itself didn't survive long after Hart was no longer involved.

But it had created huge support for the industries and trained large numbers of people in the area.