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Elizabeth Crotty, better known als Mrs. Crotty (Gower, Cooraclare, 6 December 1885 - Kilrush, 27 December 1960) was a famous concertina player out of Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland. She was born as Elizabeth Markham in the townland Gower near Cooraclare. In 1914 she married Michael (Miko) Crotty and moved to Kilrush. Miko had been in the United States for a couple of years and used the money earned over there to buy a public house on the Market Square in Kilrush, now known as "Crotty’s Pub". The fame of Mrs. Crotty only started to rise in the 1950s in the wake of the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. She participated in this movement of musicians from an early stage. When a local branch was founded in County Clare, Mrs. Crotty was elected president. She kept this position to her death in 1960.〔 Mrs. Crotty did not make any commercial recordings. The RTE had made a few recordings for their programs and they used one for their commemoration LP of 50 years RTÉ in 1976.〔 Elizabeth Crotty died on 27 December 1960 of an anginal attack. She is buried in (old) Shanakyle cemetery.〔 ==Festival== Mrs. Crotty was the namesake of the ''“Eigse Mrs Crotty” Traditional Music School and Festival'', a yearly music festival in Juli in Kilrush. This festival was held from 1996 to 2009.〔〔(The Sceoil Eigse Mrs Crotty ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Crotty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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