Royal Irish Academy

Pious and promiscuous - Leanne Calvert

Drawing on records produced by the Presbyterian church courts and a combination of personal papers, diaries and family correspondence, Leanne Calvert traces the experiences of Presbyterian women and men in eighteenth-century Ulster from the cradle to the grave. She casts light on their everyday experiences, bringing to life for the first time for a general audience stories of lovelorn courting couples, runaway apprentices, warring husbands and wives, paternity disputes, troublesome youths and grieving spouses.

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