[3] When at college she preferred socially engaged, figurative painting and, during her holidays, she lived in New York City drawing street portraits.
[3] In 2005, Duffy came to wider attention for her proposal to tow an iceberg from Greenland to Belfast, representing the city's links to the RMS Titanic and also highlighting the frosty impasse of Northern Irish politics.
[1] During Derry's year as UK City of Culture, Duffy ran the "Shirt Factory Project", employing four people.
[4] On 24 April 2016, the centenary of the Easter Rising to end British rule in Ireland, Duffy opened a show called "The Souvenir Shop" in a Georgian mansion in North Great George's Street, Dublin.
[3] She works from her studio based in Ballyconnell, County Cavan, in the Irish Republic just south of the border with Northern Ireland.