 Because of the family activities and involvement in the War of Independence, they moved several times, to the Ring Gaeltacht in Waterford and Ballybunion in Kerry.In the aftermath of the Truce the family was able to return to Dublin.Due to his involvement on the Anti-Treaty side of the Civil war, Brugha's husband died in 1922, leaving her with six children under the age of 10 during the Irish Civil War.