Her son, Cecil ffrench Salkeld was one of the leading Irish artists of the day; her granddaughter Beatrice married Brendan Behan.
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She started writing verse plays in the 1930s, and one of these, Scarecrow Over the Corn was staged in 1941 at the Gate Theatre with stage sets designed by Louis le Brocquy.
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Blánaid Salkeld (1880–1959) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and actor, whose well-known literary salon was attended by, among others, Patrick Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien.