Leanne Calvert

@leannecalvert.bsky.social

1972 Followers 333 Following

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

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.
Left to right: Dr Mary McAuliffe, Dr Susan Marie Martin and me. Action shot with the point 😂
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frank, now a white, tan & greying Jack russell peers up at me at the desk. Pay me attention now! Is the expression.
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.
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
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.
Title Slide of Dr Angela Byrne's talk 'Irish women in late Imperial Russia: Transnational Lives'
Frank is a tan and white jack Russel. He is sitting with a green blanket wrapped around him, almost like a snood. His expression says "what the fluff?"