[1] Young was involved in various groups from her time in Galway, by 1911 publicly a member of the Irish Women's Franchise League.
Her husband was an Urban District Councillor and Young worked to secure supporting resolutions for the 1911 parliamentary conciliation bill.
The local solution was to endorse the women's vote if they qualified through property values of a minimum of £10 and as long as they were not married.
[1][2][3] Galway suffragists were considered conservative and middle class which spoke to their preferred solutions despite being mobilized by this typically more militant group.
They convinced opposing newspapers to give them regular space for coverage of the issues including papers by the members read at the society meetings.