Her cousin the writer and artist Edith Blake was a close friend of Currey, and from a young age was a frequent visitor to Newtown Anner House, County Tipperary.
[2] Currey was one of the original members of the Irish Amateur Drawing Society, Ireland's earliest sketching club, founded in Lismore in 1870.
Edith Somerville recalls Currey's resistance to a proposed local authority drainage scheme that could destroy her daffodil plots by sitting on a wall with a shotgun.
She noted that blue forms of wood anemone always grew in close proximity to water, and was the recorder of the only Yellow Bartsia found in County Waterford.
[6][9] Currey was a supporter of Women's suffrage, was the organist in Lismore cathedral, and was a keen fisher, shooter, woodworker, sculptor, and made mosaics.
She wrote a fairy tale Prince Ritto or The four-leaved shamrock, published in 1877, with illustrations by Helen Sophia O'Hara, who lived with her from 1898.