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Leanne Calvert

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Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary

Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous

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Leanne Calvert

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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!

November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM

Leanne Calvert

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

November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM

Leanne Calvert

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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 😂

November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Leanne Calvert

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

November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM

Leanne Calvert

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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

November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM

Leanne Calvert

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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.

October 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Leanne Calvert

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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

October 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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

October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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.

October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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.

October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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.

October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM

Leanne Calvert

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#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

September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Leanne Calvert

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

September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Leanne Calvert

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

September 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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

September 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Leanne Calvert

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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.

September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Leanne Calvert

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

August 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM

Leanne Calvert

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

August 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM

Leanne Calvert

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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