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Shirley Armstrong-Duffy is regarded as a pioneer in the movement of women’s fencing in Ireland and as a result of that was selected to give out an award every year with ‘Salle Dublin’, a fencing club that was run by both Shirley and her husband Patrick (Paddy) Duffy. St Conleth's College Gym, Clyde Road, Dublin 4

Both Shirley and Patrick taught at the ‘Salle Dublin’ as fencing instructors.

Shirley went on to become an art historian. In doing so she then gifted many books to the Department of Triarc book collections. In her 80s she joined a Maynooth university-based course in local history at Dublin city library in 2012.

Her work constituted of being referenced in W E Vaughan; Art Cosgrove, (1989). A New History of Ireland: Ireland Under the Union, 1870-1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Where she would go on to talk about “early amateur sketching clubs in Ireland”.

Shirley was also part of her local history alumni group where she was described as having a “quiet smiling presence” in her book of condolences.