110:, O'Connor joined her family in Scotland, and attended Dunfermline High School. There she was directed towards a teaching career, which she later recalled: "Like most other teachers I did not choose teaching as a career. I was conscripted." She attended Dalry House teacher training college, Edinburgh from 1924 to 1926, and was awarded a teaching diploma in 1928. She worked for Fife Teaching Authority briefly, but returned to Northern Ireland, where her family had settled following her father's retirement in January 1927. She took over as principal of Viscount Bangor School,
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was ultimately inevitable. She addressed the Dublin Women's Social and
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22 November the same year. Nothing more is known of these plays. She had also begun to review books for newspapers, becoming known for her acerbic tone. She published two novels in 1938:
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Northern Irish Women Playwrights, Alice Milligan, Helen Waddell and Patricia O'Connor". In Shira, Melissa (ed.).
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