Notably, in 1911, she was imprisoned for a week, and in 1912, she heckled Winston Churchill and broke windows in public protests to draw attention to the cause.

Connery played a key role in spreading the suffragist message, organising speaking tours in rural counties and regularly contributing to the feminist journal Irish Citizen.

She is particularly remembered for the photo taken of her distributing copies of the Irish Citizen to Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson.

In January 1913 she again broke the windows of Dublin Castle and was arrested, this time getting one month's imprisonment alongside Mabel Purser, Barbara Hoskins and Margaret Cousins.

[2] World War I saw the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Acts which Connery protested as she felt the purpose was to make sex safe for men, especially the soldiers and sailors.

[2] The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave a vote to women and saw the attendance of suffragist meetings sharply decline thereafter, however Connery remained active.

She also worked for the Irish White Cross and in 1922 she was part of a delegation to review the destruction in counties Tipperary and Cork by the wars in Ireland.

[2] Connery opposed the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, however, unlike many others, she did not endorse the ensuing Irish Civil War.

[2][15] She was buried by at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold's Cross Dublin, in an unmarked grave, alongside her husband Con who predeceased her.