Professor Ríonach uí Ógáin is Director of the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin. She has published widely on traditional music and song and has also published a number of compact discs with accompanying booklets. Her most recent publication is The Otherworld: Music and Song from Irish Tradition (2012, ed. with Tom Sherlock). She is the current editor of Béaloideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society.