After the war, Tracy spent two years in Ireland working for the Irish Digest and for The Bell magazine, alongside her lover Seán Ó Faoláin.
She was described as "a brilliant linguist (she speaks French, German, Russian, Italian and some Japanese)", which assisted her greatly in her travel writing.
During this period, she was the subject of a lawsuit by Maurice O'Connell, parish priest of Doneraile, Cork, who claimed he had been libelled by a pointed article Tracy had written in the Sunday Times about the new parochial house which he was building.
Harold Watts stated that "her novels are designed to be read with a glass of sherry in the hand, preferably in the company of persons as basically sensible as the ideal reader of Miss Tracy's work.
"[5] A convert to Catholicism, she lived for many years in Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland but died in 1989 in a nursing home in Oxford, England.