Leanne Calvert is an Assistant Professor in Irish History and Director of the MA History of Family in the University of Limerick. She is a historian of the family, gender and sexuality, and her work focuses on Presbyterian families in Ireland and North America across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has published extensively on Irish family life on topics including courtship, sex and the making of marriage; illegitimacy and the family; youth and adolescence; marriage and marital breakdown; siblinghood; the material culture of sex; fatherhood and pregnancy; and queer approaches to the Irish. family