with John Redmond on 27 July 1911 to ask him and the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) to support the women's suffrage bill, which he refused. She was part of the Irish delegation that met with Prime Minister H. H. Asquith on 17 November 1911 regarding women's suffrage under the home rule bill. Hoey severed her links to the UIL and IPP in 1912, resigning as secretary, citing the party's refusal to back women's suffrage claiming it was a betrayal of Irish nationalism: "We are not only working for women's suffrage but for the holy Cause of Ireland. The Irish Party are asking Home Rule for a section of Ireland – we are asking it for the whole of Ireland." Life in Ireland Hoey left England for Canada in June 1913, sailing from Liverpool to Quebec on the Teutonic. She worked for the Canadian government, conducting research on maple-syrup farmers. She had returned to Ireland by 3 February 1916, where she was appointed to inquire into cases of outdoor relief and coal distribution recorded in the relieving officer's books. On 22 February she delivered a speech on the women's movement in Canada. She joined Ard Craobh Cumann na mBan and was stationed at the Imperial Hotel on O'Connell Street under the command of Frank Thornton during the Easter Rising. Commandant Seamus Daly stated that she was in charge of 7-8 Cumann na mBan women, and said she was the "most efficient and hard-working woman during the whole thing". Hoey was in charge of evacuating the women from the hotel when it was bombed. After the Rising, Hoey became involved with Sinn Féin. In July 1917 at an IWFL meeting she declared that the IPP's lack of support for women's suffrage would ultimately lead to the demise of the party. According to a British government file, Hoey was considered one of the most energetic propagandists in Dublin as a member of Sinn Féin and Cumann na mBan. Around the same time, she was temporarily employed by the British government, and she claimed that she was offered a permanent civil service position if she renounced Sinn Féin and took the oath of allegiance. She refused and was dismissed. During the War of Independence, she worked as a propagandist for Sinn Féin and as confidential secretary to Arthur Griffith. She also maintained a secret office for Michael Collins at her home at 5 Mespil