Irish antiquary whose collections of songs and legends formed a storehouse for writers of the Irish literary revival.
During rambles in southern Ireland, 1812-16, he collected legends, folk songs and keens (dirges for the death), some of which he sent to the poet Thomas Moore, who acknowledged a debt to him in his Irish Melodies.
This collection formed the basis of Croker´s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-28) which was praised and translated into German and admired by Sir Walter Scott, who described Croker as "little as a dwarf, keeneyed as a hawk, and of easy prepossessing manners".
After 1818 Croker lived in England working as clerk in the admiralty until 1850.
His later works included Popular Songs of Ireland (1839).
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