[4] On November 14, 1870, in Leipzig, Germany, she married William Irelan, Jr., a mining and consulting engineer.
He also conducted a school in mining chemistry, metallurgy and kindred sciences.
[4] She worked the clays of California and established the first art pottery, manufacturing the first wares of the kind west of Ohio.
She was acknowledged as a pioneer in this line of industrial art in the American west.
[4] Ireland's writings included a work on the use of clays and the manufacture of pottery in California, and she was a frequent contributor to many of the leading magazines upon the subject of her specialty.