Road under the name O'Brien. At this house, Hoey occasionally hosted cabinet meetings, with Collins using it as an office during the day for meetings. Hoey was appointed secretary to the Dáil courts on Henry Street by Collins. The auxiliary British forces occupied 5 Mespil Road for 24 hours in April 1921 in an attempt to catch Collins unaware. Hoey circumvented them by pretending her mother was unwell and calling on Dr Alice Barry who then took papers from the house, smuggled them to Collins with a warning for him to stay away. Hoey's house was ransacked, with her possessions taken or destroyed, and she was imprisoned in Mountjoy prison for several weeks until she was released in June due to a lack of any evidence against her. During her incarceration, along with other women, Collins sent her items such as books, food, and tea. Following the truce in July 1921, Griffith requested that she work on the negotiations regarding Ulster. Hoey was pro-treaty, and was enlisted in the National Army as assistant military censor on 20 June 1922, working under Piaras Béaslaí. Béaslaí later stated that she did exactly the same work as her male peers, operating under great personal danger. After the civil war, she attempted to enter politics, as a founding member of the Women's Independent Association, and later running unsuccessfully in the 1925 Seanad elections. She faced scepticism from the Irish Free State government, who were unwilling to pay her a pension. She petitioned Béaslaí, Kevin O'Higgins, and William Cosgrave, but was only awarded £24.3.4. In July 1926, Hoey organised a dispensary for the treatment of sick animals of the poor in Portobello Harbour, Dublin. It was so successful, that it became a reoccurring evening on every Wednesday and Saturday. In 1926 she was working for the Hearst press. Hoey disappears from the records until January 1929, when her mother petitioned the government for money when she mentions her daughter's illness. Hoey died on 9 November 1930 of pulmonary tuberculosis at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital, Kill of the Grange, Dublin. She is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, with her funeral attended by Colonel Joseph O'Reilly representing President Cosgrave, Richard Mulcahy and Justice John Reddin among others. References 1883 births 1930 deaths Irish activists Irish women activists Irish suffragists Cumann na mBan members