historiography, which she discussed in her 1897 pamphlet, Woman's Place in the World of Letters. In 1908, Stopford Green argued for the sophistication and richness of the native Irish civilisation in her book, The Making of Ireland and Its Undoing, 1200-1600. It has been called "the first study of its kind to employ rigorous research and referencing"; it proposed that "a version of primitive communism had existed before the Norman invasion of the 12th century."

She was active in efforts to make