File PQH1/9. - Poetry and songs,

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.