Some of her daffodils were awarded the silver gilt Banksian medal in 1909 by the Royal Horticultural Society in London. Currey was elected a member of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland in 1901. Edith Somerville recalls Currey's resistance to a proposed local authority drainage scheme that could destroy her daffodil plots by sitting on a wall with a shotgun.
Edith Somerville
Currey