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Manuscript poems and songs, both loose and in small pamphlets, dated between 1794 and 1850, many of which are concerned with Irish life and politics. They include a Funny Club compiled from Irish society (Watermark 1794); Poems for Various Occasions and other verses by William Gore, 1796-1797; an allegorical song on the local mounted militia at Ballinamore (Watermark 1801); items relating to the life and death of George Nugent Reynolds; The Meeting of Eating and Drinking, a parody of Thomas Moore 's Meeting of the Waters; The Counterfeit Presentment of 3 Surgeons, (Watermark 1803); the death-bed prayer of Jane Harriet Gore, 1810; The Burning of Moscow probably by Ralph Gore; verses to William Ormsby-Gore MP referring to him as a champion of women, 1850; known published works; and verses by unidentified authors. Further poems describe travels in Africa, the marriage of a black man and woman in the Northampton Regiment quartered at Carrick-on-Shannon; the attempted assassination of George III [1800]; a coach journey from Bath; and translations of Spanish lyric poems.

Personal papers associated with the career and interests of William Ormsby-Gore, 1822-1860.

Volume of manuscript poems, 1797-1811, many of them written by William Gore in imitation of classical writers on wine, friendship, emotions and themes of pathos; a composition entitled The Prisoner, a comic Epithalaminum of Capt. Sober...., a Parody of Moore 's Vale of Ovoca and Lines Written at Bangor on the subject of solace in nature, 1811. The remainder include To [William Gore] on his leaving Ireland, 1805; With a Wax Doll to a Child by Eliza Gore; To a Lady....Weeping Over a Few Withered Violets and The Myrtle Leaf by P. Crampton; an Impromptu on the love of Eliza [Gore] for Thomas Moore; copies of works by Sir Carr Scrope, Sir William Jones and unidentified authors on similar romantic themes; and epitaphs.