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THOMAS CROFTON CROKER (1798-1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS CROFTON See also:CROKER (1798-1854)  , Irish See also:antiquary and humorist, was See also:born in See also:Cork on the 15th of See also:January 1798 . He was apprenticed to a See also:merchant, but in 1819, through the See also:interest of See also:John See also:Wilson See also:Croker, who was, however, no relation of his, he became a clerk in the See also:Admiralty . See also:Moore was indebted to him in the See also:production of his Irish Melodies for " many curious fragments of See also:ancient See also:poetry." In 1825 he produced his most popular See also:book, the See also:Fairy Legends and Traditions of the See also:South of See also:Ireland, which he followed up by the publication of his Legends of the Lakes (1829), his Adventures of Barney Mahoney (1852), and an edition of the Popular Songs of Ireland (1839) . In 1827 he was made a member of the Irish See also:Academy; in 1839 and 184o he helped to found the See also:Camden and See also:Percy See also:Societies, and in 1843 the See also:British Archaeological Association . He wrote Narratives Illustrative of the Contests in Ireland in 1641 and 1688 (1841), for the Camden Society, See also:Historical Songs of Ireland, &c . (1841), for the Percy Society, and several other See also:works . He was also a member of the See also:Hakluyt and the Antiquarian Society . He died in See also:London on the 8th of See also:August 1854 .

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