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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lovely weekend at the West Cork History Festival 🤓 I shared research from my book on "Runaway husbands, Unhappy wives and Cheating Spouses: Tales of Marital Disorder in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ulster". Tiny historian came too 👶 @ulhistory.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"a veritable Bridgerton on the Bann" 😘 drb.ie/article/unho... Many thanks to Lynsey Black for this lovely review of my book, Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love and Family in Ulster. @ria.ie @ulhistory.bsky.social @cemslimerick.bsky.social #HistSex #HistFam #PiousPromiscuous

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The new episode of the Irish History Podcast features me with Fin O'Dwyer on 'The Secret Sex Lives of Our Ancestors'. Listen in to hear more about Presbyterians & their sex lives in c18th Ireland #HistSex #PiousPromiscuous @ulhistory.bsky.social @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social Links below 👇

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We're staying in Tipp for Xmas. Parents sent us down our Xmas boxes. Frank already in brat mode. As you can see, my ma packed us the essentials 😂 Tayto & soda farls

Frank, a white and tan jack russell terrier stands up to look into a box. You can see Tayto crisps (the real ones not the interlopers) at the top of a bag of presents.

Frank looking happy next to a present addressed to him.

Frank looking over a parcel that contains his Xmas pj's. We have matching ones.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Ah lovely to see that I have been elected as a Fellow @royalhistsoc.org this morning 🥰 Many thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for supporting my application

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We were in Dublin yesterday for our History of Family field trip 😊 Many thanks to Henrietta Street & @nlireland.bsky.social for hosting us. Pictured with permission some of the MA History of Family & MA History students who take my module @ulhistory.bsky.social So lovely to meet in person!

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Have the absolute best students. One for my wall 🥰 with some of the History of Family folks who came last night 🤓

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Great time last night at the Dublin Book Festival with @susanmariemartin.bsky.social talking about our books 😊 Thanks to the @ria.ie for hosting us & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for chairing. And the audience for the giggles & craic @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social

Left to right: Dr Mary McAuliffe, Dr Susan Marie Martin and me. Action shot with the point 😂

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

In Dublin so popped into Hodges & Figgis to say hello to my book 👋Signed some too 👀 #PiousPromiscuous #NewBook

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On my way to Dublin to take part in a book panel discussion on "Women, Struggle & Resilience". We're covering women's lives from c18th Ulster to c20th Dublin. It's almost sold out, last tickets here dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #WomensHist

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Thanks to OMahonys in Limerick having me down yesterday to sign copies of my book ❤️ first time I've personally seen it in a bookshop! @ria.ie @ulhistory.bsky.social

Screen shot from Instagram of Leanne standing with her book in OMahonys, Limerick. The caption says Thank you to Leanne Calvert for calling in to sign copies of her debut book, Pious and Promiscuous.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Today is officially publication day of my book 🥰 Thank you to everyone who made this a reality and to those who pre-ordered a copy! She exists 😍 @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social Get yours here: shop.ria.ie/products/pious #HistSex #IrishHist #HistFam #NewBook #Family

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The consequences of self -defilement

To pubescent young men, I would medically advise against self-defilement as such actions will result in :
1. The sterilisation of one's sperm,
2. The shrinkage of one's manhood,
3. The loss of one's hair
4. The development of a distinctive STENCH
5. The decay of one's teeth,
6. The development of madness taking over one's mind

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

One wank a day will send you to an early grave 🙈😂

A most horrific case of self abuse has found foot in our good and moral community. A young man of not sixteen years of age has pulled his member clean off his body much to the dismay of his family and friends. The cause of this untimely disememberment had been found as practice in the sin of rigorous sessions of the most evil pleasure. The member was found on the window sill, with this horrific case leading to an avalanche of confessions from his peers as they know the same fate awaits them. As an expert physician on this sordid topic, I offer my advice as follows : then irreversible loss of one's manhood.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Meet the gruesome twosome. A married couple ruined by masturbation.

The past week I have dealt with a patient who was suffering greatly. I visited a woman's house last week and after talking for a bit she informed me she was involved in a sexless marriage. From our first she was clearly ill. Her teeth were as yellow as the sun and her eyes appeared lifeless.

The following week I paid another visit to find her in a much worse state. She was hunched over clearly experiencing problems with her spine, from further inspection it appeared she grew a penis and had boils all over skin. From these symptoms it was clear she became involved in masturbation.

When I called the husband in to talk to him he hobbled in hunch over with boils on his skin. This is a case of not performing your obligations as a married couple and then sinning in front of God.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Onanist? Oh no you don't! *masturbation ruins you for marriage *the virgin Mary is hot

Throughout my studies I have observed a concerning uptick of young women afflicted with unnatural fantasies of the sapphic variety.

When once they had been pure an pious girls, admiring statues of the virgin Mary for hours on end, exposure to morally corrupt peers in the school house who have seized the minds and bodies of these fair maidens, has manifested in the insular and eager exploitation of ones own body, before descending into bacchaulian debauchery without the aid of one's husband.

It is my sincere and grave concern that due to these practices, no husband can be attained. And if one shall be, he will find his facilities inadequate to bring about the necessary pleasure for conception.

To counteract such sinful falls from grace, it is my medically informed advice that daughters should be confined to the home in favour of the schoolhouse to receive Christian education under the watchful eye of a married woman.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

#ICYMI You can bag 20% off my new book with the code PiousLimerick until this Thursday. Add the code to the checkout at shop.ria.ie/products/Pio... Pls share ☺️ #Family #IrishFamily #IrishHist #History #NewBook

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Here's the live action (edited version) of me struggling to use scissors and unbox it 😂

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I'm looking forward to this. I'll be there on Saturday in the "Masculinity and Sexuality" panel sharing research from book 2 on same-sex desire & male intimacy #HistSex

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam

Poster with details of my upcoming talk for the Limerick History Festival. Talk is titled '“She never knew any man on earth except [him]: Paternity disputes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster.” My talk explores issues of paternity, pregnancy & sexual scandal. Thursday 25 September at People's Museum, No. 2 Pery Square, 7pm.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Buy Frank toy to keep himself occupied while I try to write... Did not think this through 🔊

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Ha, have just went through the monthly "white rabbit" ritual with my mum & sisters this morning 🐇🐇🐇 Hope you reap the luck this month!

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I want to thank everyone who asked about my boy. Frank had a stroke & bleed on the brain, confirmed with an MRI on Thursday. He is recovering well, thanks to our wonderful vets. Folks with dogs, signs to look out for are a 'drunken' gait, circling, head tilt & lameness. #dogs #jrt

Frank and Leanne. Frank is a jack russell cross. He is white with tan patches. He is wearing his pink and red animal print harness & collar.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Little cover update. Now brighter & with flames 🔥😍#IrishFam #Family #HistFam #HistSex

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What I wish: that people were patient to people who stammer

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Love that some children see their stammer as their super power

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

*Stutter openly *You can do anything

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For the people in back:Stuttering is a different way of talking

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Highlights : *just because people stutter does not mean they are nervous *it's not kind to finish people's sentences *I am proud that I am a person who stutters *stuttering is just another way of talking

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Dead proud that @unioflimerick.bsky.social are hosting "Camp Dream Speak Live", an innovative camp that supports children who stammer. I volunteered this morning & spoke to 29 kids about why their voices matter ❤️ The kids created posters about what they wished people knew. Posted with permission 👇

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Guess what has appeared for pre-order on the WHSmith website??? My book, published with the Royal Irish Academy 😍 Coming in October! #IrishHist #HistFam #HistSex Isn't the cover divine 💋 www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Lean...

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Set myself the task of finishing a book chapter before I go on leave next week. Stressing & cursing at the laptop. My co-writer, however, is his usual chilled self. Bored to sleep, I assume, by my talk of whiskey-drinking & pints of rum

Frank is a white and tan patch jack russell terrier. He is lying sprawled in his grey donut bed without a care in the world. He's also snoozing. Supervising his human writing is clearly a hard job.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Decorating my slides with fancy Frank & reminiscing when he used to let me dress him up. We're currently in the "old grumpy man" phase where I just bring him stuff & he glares at me in return.

Frank, a tan and white jack russell terrier, is sitting with a copy of Tess of the D'Ubervilles. He has a pair of glasses balanced between his paws. The picture was taken in June 2018, so almost 7 years ago. Frank was about 6 here.

Frank's picture on a PowerPoint slide that explains the skills that students have developed to this point.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Great programme again this year! I'm sharing some research from book 2 on migration & divorce. I'm also part of an ECR advice clinic on "Why researching womens experiences matter". Looking forward to visiting Carlow! #WomensHist #GenderHist

ECR workshop
Chair: Dr Susie Deedigan
WHAI Representative

Why researching womens experiences matters and how to do it well: ECR/PGR advice clinic

Facilitators:

Dr Leanne Calvert
University of Limerick

Dr Deirdre Foley
Trinity College Dublin

Dr Lorraine Grimes
Maynooth University

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Delighted to be able to join @shannondevlin.bsky.social book launch on siblings remotely 🤩 well done again 🎉🎉

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

So much so, that her wee pearl of wisdom is in my acknowledgements for my book, coming September

This is a book about family life. The families we belong to and the families we make for ourselves. I want to thank my parents, Debbie and Mark, for encouraging me to do my best and, importantly, for reminding me that my best is good enough.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

History of Family folks are in for a treat today, with a special research lecture from @angela-historian.bsky.social on Irish women in late Imperial Russia #WomensHistory #Migration #FamilyHistory

Title Slide of Dr Angela Byrne's talk 'Irish women in late Imperial Russia: Transnational Lives'

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Discrimination against people who stammer is insidious & it's normalised in media & "newspapers" as a bit of a joke. If you feel uncomfortable listening to someone stammer, you need to take a look at yourself. You're the problem. Shared from STAMMA www.instagram.com/p/DIOKW5IsgF...

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tired but lots brain fizzes after @ulhistory.bsky.social Telling Her Stories event. Couldn't have did today without my fabulous PGR steering group, Rebecca O'Regan, Rachel Beck & Naomi Rice 🤓 Pictured some of our speakers & organisers. Thanks to all woo participated 🤗

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Can't express how much I've missed the water.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Trip away for human himselfs birthday. The main himself is loving life, see video below 🐕🌊

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If you are still in a #ValentinesDay mood & want to read/listen to some #hairyarchive stories, do check out my work on the Tennent collection that is held in PRONI. This #hairy collection contains 14 locks of hair belonging to 10 different women. What does it tell us about love & sex? ❤️💋 See below!

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In Dec 1699, word reached Burt Kirk Session that Mary Latimer was ‘was going down to ye mosse’ at ‘night crying & saying that she would drown herself, or kill herself upon the rocks’. The cause of her distress? Her sweetheart was marrying someone else despite his promises to her #ValentinesDay 💔

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