For her secondary level education she was first put under the care of a governess at home, which was then in Blarney, Cork.

Poore was then sent to Fanny Metcalfe's school in Highfield where she was a classmate of Blanche Athena Clough.

On her return to Kerry, Poore acted as her father's secretary in the aftermath of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland.

She tells the story of the anti-catholic riots in Alexandria and the results of the shelling of the city by the British forces.

From 1908 to 1911 she and her husband were assigned to Sydney, Australia, where Lady Poore was the first president of the Bush Book Club[4][5][6][3][2] and her good friend, Phoebe Ellen Wesché, was the vice-President.