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“... A.G. Dickens half a century ago described a Marian ‘reaction’, a posse of historians led by Eamon Duffy, Christopher Haigh, John Edwards and Loades himself have found a reformation as full of potential as anything that Protestants did, indeed the largest-scale attempt to restore Catholicism up till then in all Europe. We ought to forget Dickens’s ...”

“... History of England is now a sunken battleship, with nothing visible save a few extracts, edited by Eamon Duffy and published as The Reign of Mary Tudor. The Life of Carlyle briefly re-emerged, abridged, in 1979, but then sank again. Given that we now can’t get enough of the Tudors whom Froude resurrected, and that critics as varied as Elton, Conyers ...”

“... offers judgments modestly yet confidently in his afterwords. He believes the Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy over-romanticises monastic houses in his Stripping of the Altars (1992), favouring the more critical view of another Cambridge professor (and Benedictine monk), David Knowles, put forward in Religious Orders in England (1948). When Dissolution ...”

“... of his seventieth birthday, he told one of his most trusted correspondents, the historian Eamon Duffy, left him ‘feeling that I had agreed to be plundered. I don’t know if you were aware of the extent of the exposure,’ he went on, ‘but it left me oddly unconfident. Not oddly, come to think of it. Understandably and ...”

“... by the non-violent Nationalist Arthur Griffith but from 1917 led by the senior survivor of 1916, Eamon de Valera – this new radical movement won 73 of the 105 Irish seats at Westminster in the December 1918 General Election. Assembling in Dublin on 19 January 1919, those elected members not in prison or ‘on the run’ met as Dáil Éireann – the ...”

“... a couple of lines to Philip’s role in the persecutions, although other recent studies, notably Eamon Duffy’s Fires of Faith (2009) and Edwards’s biography of Mary, have revealed it to be substantial, if not central. Kelsey remarks that the method of execution – burning at the stake – was ‘typically English’, an odd thing to say given that ...”

“... church itself. In describing all this and more, Orme’s book inevitably invites comparison with Eamon Duffy’s masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars – yet another Yale book, now thirty years old. Duffy wrote with elegiac elegance about the effects of the Reformation on parish religion, unafraid to show his ...”

“... was not strong in uniformity. Major historical studies of the Reformation period, like Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars and Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, may be written from different ideological positions, yet will imply a similar historical picture. The world they describe is one of ...”

“... as a political force. One of their teachers was the daughter of the legendary Charles Gavan Duffy, who led a noble but futile revolution against the British at the height of the Famine in 1848. A few years after the Kiernan girls left his school, Pearse was executed by the British for leading another rebellion. The Kiernan sisters took a bit of the ...”

“... in the ensuing months.Indeed, it remained of immense importance through the ensuing decades. Eamon de Valera, one of the few 1916 leaders to survive the Rising – his American citizenship saved him from the firing squad – recognised the importance of the Church’s influence, especially among working-class mothers, and used it with cunning and ...”