Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854
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Thomas Crofton Croker was an Irish antiquary who devoted most of his life to collecting ancient Irish poetry and Irish folklore. In England in 1828 he founded the Society of Noviomagus with a small circle of like-minded friends.
Thomas Crofton Croker was born in County Cork, and worked as a clerk in the British Admiralty for some forty years. He is well remembered today for being one of the first to collect and publish Irish folktales. His first book of tales was quite popular, and was translated into German by the Brothers Grimm.
Irish antiquary. In 1825 published "The Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland," praised by Sir Walter Scott. Helped found the Camden Society, the Percy Society, and the British Archaeological Association.
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Antiquarian booksellers
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Book collectors
Book history and arts
Coins, Chinese
Elegiac poetry, English
English poetry
Excavations (Archaeology)
Folk literature
Folklorists
Occasional verse, English
Sentimentalism in literature
Sonnets, English
Tales
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Wales
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Great Britain
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Wales
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Limerick (Ireland : County)
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Great Britain
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Donegal (Ireland : County)
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