In 1967 Comerford worked on the restoration of the Tailors' Hall in Dublin with the Irish Georgian Society, which had housed Wolfe Tone's nascent republican parliament in the 1790s. In 1969 her book 'The First Dáil' was published by Joe Clarke. In the 1970s and up to her death she supported the Provisional Irish Republican Army war in Northern Ireland, in particular its hunger strike campaign. In 1976 she was interviewed for the 'Curious Journey' television documentary with other survivors of the 1914-23 period, later published as a book. She worked as a journalist until her retirement in the 1960s.