[1] While editing a paper connected with it, The Shamrock (previously associated with William O'Brien), she made the acquaintance of Katharine Tynan and the two later became firm friends.
Tynan described her as "a tall girl with a fair skin which had a shade of brown in it", with "fearless grey eyes...and a most honest look".
With the job came the use of several rooms in the newspaper offices in Middle Abbey Street, which became the meeting place of an ever-growing circle of friends and literary acquaintances.
The latter included Douglas Hyde, W. B. Yeats, Stephen Gwynn, the old Fenians Denis Dowling Mulcahy and John O'Leary and his sister, Ellen.
She was introduced to the American public by John Boyle O'Reilly in the Boston Pilot, and by Alfred Williams in the Providence Journal.