In the days after the Rising, she mounted a search to find volunteer Paddy Shortis, only to discover he had died in the retreat from the GPO.

[4] During the War of Independence, she collected and stored arms, and secured safe houses for men on the run.

Connolly went to Manchester and Liverpool on the orders of Austin Stack during the Civil War to relay cables to the United States and await the replies.

She was attached to the garrison at Barry's Hotel during the attack on the Four Courts in 1922, mobilising men and moving arms under the orders of Oscar Traynor.

[2] Connolly died on 15 November 1981, and is buried in the family plot in Grange cemetery, County Carlow.