She was also the first woman member of the Medico Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists), elected in 1894.
She was arrested in 1921 by Irish state forces for being involved in an assistance and escape program for anti-treaty prisoners which was centred on the asylum at Portrane.
She attended the Royal University of Ireland and in 1887 came first in the list of the examinations in medicine and was commended in the Dublin Medical Press.
[1] She was initially a clinical assistant and her promotion was slow with suggestions that she always ‘passed over for male colleagues’.
[1] From 1921 she worked at its associated Portrane Asylum, Donabate, (now known as St. Ita's Hospital) and she eventually rose to be the deputy resident medical superintendent.
Her proposer was Conolly Norman, director of the Richmond District Asylum where she worked and also the president of the Medico-Psychological Association in 1895, and editor of the Journal of Mental Science.
She published scientific papers including Agitated Melancholia in Women, which was read at the 1895 Irish Divisional meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association.