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Elizabeth Cronin created some inspirational records during her life which are still to this day widely available in the Irish traditional music archive.

Elizabeth remains such an influential singer, because she was her own critic.

Cronin was a wonderful singer who deeply impressed figures such as Seamus Ennis and Diana Hamilton, who visited Elizabeth Cronin twice in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Half of Cronin's songs were written in Irish and it was mostly her Irish music that caught the attention of the first collectors who visited her. Due to her love for the Irish language, it made he a lot of the Irish community proud to speak the local dialect. Despite this all of the songs that she wrote out in her own hand are in English because, not having been taught Irish in school, she could write a kind of phonetic Gaelic.

To this day Elizabeth Cronin has the ability to ensnare her listeners in an aura which shuts out everything else but the focus on the narrative. To put it in perspective Elizabeth Cronin influenced great Irish singers such as Christy Moore and Martin Carthy. Her legacy still lives on as still to this day her songs are played on RTE radio.

The legacy Elizabeth Cronin wanted to leave was to showcase the importance of family. Undoubtedly most of her songs covered the topics of home and family. Example of this our her songs "The Little Pack of Tailors", "Pussy Cats Party" and "Uncle rat". Certainly the most significant message to take from Elizabeth Cronin's songs is the extent to which they showed from her everyday life, from family life to life on the farm.

What made Elizabeth Cronin such a great singer was the differences in her songs. From the upbeat and joyful songs of "Cuckanandy" or "Dance for Your Daddy-O" to the painful and sad tone in songs like "Siuil a ruin" and "Sweet Boney, will I e'er see you more?"