Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, "The Queen of Irish Song', as Seamus Ennis called her, is probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of our time. Her reputation was such that collectors came from far and near to hear and record her singing. Seamus Ennis collected her songs for the first Irish Folklore Commission in the mid 1940s, and again with Brian George, for the BBC in the early 1950s. American collectors also recorded her: Alan Lomax for...