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Brian O'Raghallaigh

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Assistant Professor
AHC.S139
T:Ext. 5615

E:brian.oraghallaigh@dcu.ie

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Is ollamh cúnta mé in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge ag Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath. Tá BA (Mod.) sa ríomhtheangeolaíocht agus PhD sa teicneolaíocht urlabhra agam ó Choláiste na Tríonóide. Tá mo chuid taighde dírithe ar an téarmeolaíocht, an ainmeolaíocht agus an mbéaloideaseolaíocht dhigiteach, chomh maith leis an bhfoghraíocht agus an teicneolaíocht teanga. Is mé an Comh-Phríomhthaighdeoir ar an tionscadal Díchódú Oireachtaí Folaithe (2021–24) arna maoiniú ag an AHRC/IRC. Is mé an Príomhthaighdeoir ar thionscadal Logainm Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann arna maoiniú ag Roinn na Gaeltachta (www.logainm.ie; meitheal.logainm.ie).

Is mé an bainisteoir teicneolaíochta i ngrúpa taighde Gaois (www.gaois.ie; github.com/gaois; docs.gaois.ie). Is mé an comhordaitheoir modúil le haghaidh LIG1004 (Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge) agus is comh-chomhordaitheoir modúil mé ar LIG1010 (Taighde Corpais). Is mise a chruthaigh Bunachar Teangeolaíoch Sloinnte Gaeilge Gaois (www.gaois.ie/ga/surnames). Is mise a scríobh Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge (Cois Life, 2014) agus a chruthaigh www.fuaimeanna.ie arna maoiniú ag Coiste Léann na Gaeilge (RIA). Is bainisteoir táirge Terminologue mé, an t-ardán bainistíochta téarmaíochta néal-bhunaithe (www.terminologue.org).

Bhí mé ar choiste stiúrtha tionscadail de chuid Roinn na Gaeltachta agus Ard-Stiúrthóireachta an Aistriúcháin chun tacú le téarmeolaíocht GA in Institiúidí an AE a chríochnaigh i 2025. Tá mé ar Bhord Comhairleach agus ar ghrúpa oibre teicniúil Fhoclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG) de chuid Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann (RIA). Is ball mé den Chumann um Ainmeolaíocht sa Bhreatain agus in Éirinn (SNSBI), den Chumann Idirnáisiúnta um Eitneolaíocht agus Béaloideas (SIEF), agus den Chroíghrúpa Sainspéise i dTeicneolaíocht Teanga Gaeilge (CIGILT). Is ball mé de Bhord Thaisclann Dhigiteach na hÉireann (DRI). Ba bhall mé de Shainghrúpa Comhairleach (EAG) an DRI roimhe sin.

Leagan Béarla:

I am an assistant professor in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge at Dublin City University. I hold a BA (Mod.) in computational linguistics and a PhD in speech technology from Trinity College Dublin. My research focuses on digital terminology, onomastics and folkloristics, as well as phonetics and language technology. I am the Co-Principal Investigator of the AHRC-IRC Decoding Hidden Heritages project (2021–24). I am the Principal Investigator of the Department of the Gaeltacht-funded Logainm Placenames Database of Ireland project (www.logainm.ie; meitheal.logainm.ie).

I am the technology manager of the Gaois research group (www.gaois.ie; github.com/gaois; docs.gaois.ie). I am module coordinator for LIG1004 (Irish Linguistics) and module co-coordinator of LIG1010 (Corpus Research). I am the creator of the Gaois Linguistic Database of Irish-language Surnames (www.gaois.ie/en/surnames). I am the author of Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge (Cois Life, 2014) and creator of the RIA-funded www.fuaimeanna.ie. I am the product manager of Terminologue, the cloud-based terminology management platform (www.terminologue.org).

I was on the steering committee of the Department of the Gaeltacht and EU Directorate-General for Translation project to support GA terminology in the EU Institutions which concluded in 2025. I am on the Advisory Board and technical working group of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Historical Dictionary of Modern Irish (FNG). I am a member of the Society for Names Studies in Briatain and Ireland (SNSBI), the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), and the Core Interest Group for Irish Language Technology (CIGILT). I am a member of the Board of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and was previously a member of the DRI Expert Advisory Group (EAG).

Book

	Year	Publication
	2026	William Lamb, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Beatrice Alex, Tiber Falzett, Barbara Hillers (2026) Decoding the Oral Traditions of Scotland and Ireland: From Manuscripts to Models. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
	2014	John Judge, Teresa Lynn, Monica Ward & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2014) Proceedings of the First Celtic Language Technology Workshop. Dublin: Association for Computational Linguistics & Dublin City University. [Link]
	2014	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2014) Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge (2ú heagrán). Baile Átha Cliath: Cois Life. [Link]
	2013	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2013) Fuaimeanna na Gaeilge. Baile Átha Cliath: Cois Life. [Link]
	2012	Mairéad Nic Lochlainn & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2012) Placenames Workshop: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online. Dublin: Fiontar. [Link]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2023	Jonathan Cherry, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach (2023) 'Reading Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes' In: Naming, Identities and Geography: Critical Perspectives in a Globalizing and Standardizing World. Cham : Springer. [Link]
	2018	Katie Ní Loingsigh & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2018) 'Harping on a new string: the search for Irish-language idioms' In: Phraséologie et discours. Paris : Honoré Champion.
	2014	Pauline Welby, Máire Ní Chiosáin & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2014) 'La production des consonnes éclipsées chez de jeunes locuteurs de l'irlandais' In: La liaison : approches contemporaines. Berne : Peter Lang.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2025) 'Irish-language naming and renaming of state, semi-state and private sector bodies in Ireland'. Onomastica Uralica, 20 :237-250. [Link]
	2022	Katie Ní Loinsigh, Mícheál Ó Meachair, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Úna Bhreathnach, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2022) 'Anailís Dhiacronach Chorpasbhunaithe ar Cheantair Theangeolaíocha na hÉireann [A Diachronic Corpus-based Analysis of Ireland’s Linguistic Regions]'. TEANGA, 29 . [Link]
	2021	Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Kevin Scannell (2021) 'Tiomsú Corpais don Taighde Foclóireachta: Corpas Foclóireachta na Gaeilge (CFG2020)'. TEANGA, 28 . [Link]
	2021	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Michal Boleslav Měchura, Aengus Ó Fionnagáin, & Sophie Osborne. (2021) 'Developing the Gaois Linguistic Database of Irish-language Surnames'. NAMES-A JOURNAL OF ONOMASTICS, 69 (1):10-19. [Link]
	2017	Pauline Welby, Máire Ní Chiosáin, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2017) 'Total eclipse of the heart? The production of eclipsis in two speaking styles of Irish'. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47 (2):125-153. [Link]
	2014	Ó Cleircín, G., Bale, A., & Ó Raghallaigh, B. (2014) 'Dúchas.ie: ré nua i stair Chnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann'. Bealoideas, 82 . [Link]
	2014	Lopes, N., Grant, R., Ó Raghallaigh, B., Ó Carragáin, E., Collins, S., & Decker, S. (2014) 'Linked Logainm: Enhancing Library Metadata using Linked Data of Irish Place Names'. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 416 . [Link]

Guidelines for Practice

	Year	Publication
	2025	Jonathan Cherry; Brian Ó Raghallaigh; Diarmaid Ó Maoileoin; Kate Murphy (2025) Minor placenames in Ireland: a guide to promoting and facilitating ‘citizen humanities’ in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. GFP [Link]

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2022	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Andrea Palandri, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (2022) Proceedings of the 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop within LREC2022 *Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Irish-Language Folklore* Marseille, France, 20/06/2022- 20/06/2022 [Link]
	2022	Michal Měchura, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2022) Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today (MDTT 2022) *Dare to be different: how user needs determine termbase design* Padova, Italy, 16/06/2022- 17/06/2022 [Link]
	2021	Michal Boleslav Měchura & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2021) Proceedings of the XIX EURALEX international congress: Lexicography for inclusion *Introducing Terminologue: a cloud-based, open-source terminology management tool* 07/09/2021- 09/09/2021 [Link]
	2020	Úna Bhreathnach, Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2020) Téamaí agus Tionscadail Taighde: Léachtaí Cholm Cille L *Ní hUalach do Dhuine an Léann: Meithleacha Pobail i nGort na Gaeilge* Maigh Nuad, 26/04/2019- 27/04/2019 [Link]
	2019	David Braude, Matthew Aylett, Caoimhín Laoide-Kemp, Simone Ashby, Kristen Scott, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Anna Braudo, Alex Brouwer, Adriana Stan (2019) Interspeech 2019 *All Together Now: The Living Audio Dataset* Graz, Austria, 15/09/2019- 19/09/2019 [Link]
	2019	Úna Bhreathnach, Cathal Burke, Jeaic Mag Fhinn, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2019) Proceedings of the Third Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2019 *A quantitative analysis of biographical data from Ainm, the Irish-language Biographical Database* Varna, Bulgaria, 05/09/2019- 06/09/2019 [Link]
	2019	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Kevin Scannell, Meghan Dowling (2019) Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW) *Improving full-text search results on dúchas.ie using language technology* Dublin, 19/08/2019- [Link]
	2016	Katie Ní Loingsigh, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2016) Proceedings of the XVII EURALEX international congress: Lexicography and Linguistic Diversity *Starting from Scratch – The Creation of an Irish-language Idiom Database* Tbilisi, 06/09/2016- 10/09/2016 [Link]
	2015	Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2015) First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015 *Ainm.ie: Breathing New Life into a Canonical Collection of Irish-language Biographies* Amsterdam, 09/04/2015- [Link]
	2014	Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Kevin Scannell, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Eilís Ní Mhearraí, Máire Nic Mhaoláin, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Gregory Toner, Séamus Mac Mathúna, Déirdre D’Auria, Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair & Niall O’Leary (2014) Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage (LREC: LRT4HDA) *Corpas na Gaeilge (1882-1926): Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts* Reykjavik, 26/05/2014- 31/05/2014 [Link]
	2014	Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Michal Boleslav Měchura (2014) First Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW) *Developing high-end reusable tools and resources for Irish-language terminology, lexicography, onomastics (toponymy), folkloristics, and more, using modern web and database technologies* Dublin, 23/08/2014- 23/08/2014 [Link]
	2012	Michal Boleslav Měchura & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2012) Placenames Workshop: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online *The logainm.ie Placenames Database of Ireland: software demonstration* Dublin, Ireland, 24/08/2012- 25/08/2012 [Link]
	2012	Maria Byrne, Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Mairéad Nic Lochlainn (2012) Placenames Workshop: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online *Synchronising the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and Placenames Branch (logainm.ie) bilingual toponymic datasets* Dublin, Ireland, 24/08/2012- 25/08/2012 [Link]
	2011	Pauline Welby, Máire Ní Chiosáin & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2011) 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII) *A phonetic investigation of Irish eclipsis: preliminary results and challenges* Hong Kong, China, 17/08/2011- 21/08/2011 [Link]
	2010	Michal Boleslav Měchura & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2010) Euralex 2010 *The Focal.ie National Terminology Database for Irish: software demonstration* Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 06/07/2010- 10/07/2010 [Link]
	2006	Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, John Wogan, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Áine Ní Bhriain, Eric Zoerner, Harald Berthelsen & Christer Gobl (2006) Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP *Speech technology for minority languages: the case of Irish (Gaelic)* Pittsburgh, United States, 17/09/2006- 21/09/2006 [Link]
	2006	John Wogan, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Áine Ní Bhriain, Eric Zoerner, Harald Berthelsen, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide & Christer Gobl (2006) 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages *Developing a Spoken Corpus and a Synthesiser for Irish* Genoa, Italy, 22/05/2006- 28/05/2006 [Link]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2026	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2026) DCU Open Research Week 2026 Terminologue – from terminology research to open software Dublin City University, 09/02/2026-11/02/2026.
	2026	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2026) DCU’s International Research Collaboration Forum Terminologue – multilingual open research software Dublin City University, 13/01/2026-15/01/2026.
	2025	Andrea Palandri, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) An Teangeolaíocht Chorpais i dTeangacha na hÉireann Canúint: Réigiúnacha canúnacha dinimiciúla Dublin City University, 13/11/2025-14/11/2025.
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Open Research for Global Impact Terminologue, a cloud-based, open-source terminology management tool Dublin City University, 15/10/2025-15/10/2025.
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Daonscoil na Mumhan Fás agus forbairt Logainm Coláiste na Rinne, 14/08/2025-14/08/2025.
	2025	Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Kevin Scannell, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Úna Bhreathnach & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Corpus Linguistics 2025 A comparative analysis of verb usage in the National Corpus of Irish and the Corpus of Spoken Irish Birmingham, UK, 30/06/2025-03/07/2025.
	2025	Anja Mahler & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar 2025 – AI and Human Collaboration: Partners in Archiving? Reviving Ireland’s Linguistic Legacy: A Groundbreaking Digital Preservation of Irish Dialects University of South Wales, Cardiff, Wales, 06/05/2025-08/05/2025.
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Siompóisiam Bhreandáin Uí Bhuachalla Ainm.ie – Missing persons Notre Dame, 12/04/2025-12/04/2025.
	2025	S. Denvir, C. Ní Chléircín, B. Ó Raghallaigh, É. Ní Mhuircheartaigh (2025) DCU FHSS Arts & Culture Celebration Logainm: Mapping Words, Music and Folklore Dublin City University, 27/03/2025-27/03/2025.
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) iCAN Winter Evening Talk Series 2024/2025 Meitheal Logainm.ie: Preserving Ireland’s minor placenames Zoom, 04/03/2025-04/03/2025.
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Irish Traditional Music Archive Overview of Gaois research projects for ITMA Dublin, 11/02/2025-11/02/2025.
	2024	Brian Ó Raghallaigh; Gearóid Ó Cleircín; Úna Bhreathnach (2024) The 28th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences Irish-language naming and renaming of state, semistate and private sector bodies in Ireland Helsinki, 19/08/2024-23/08/2024.
	2023	Barbara Hillers, Monica Marion, Will Lamb, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Beatrice Alex, Jamie Tehrani, Tiber Falzett & Andrea Palandri (2023) American Folklore Society Annual Meeting 2023 Decoding Hidden Heritages in Gaelic Traditional Narrative Portland, Oregon, 01/11/2023-04/11/2023.
	2023	Barbara Hillers, Jamshid Tehrani, Will Lamb, Monica Marion, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Tiber Falzett, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2023) ICCS Mining the Celtic Folklore Archives: Decoding Hidden Heritages in Gaelic Traditional Narrative Utrecht, 24/07/2023-28/07/2023.
	2023	Tiber Falzett, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Andrea Palandri, Monica Marion, Beatrice Alex, Barbara Hillers, Will Lamb, Jamie Tehrani (2023) SIEF2023 Enhancing access to Scottish and Irish traditional narrative: Decoding Hidden Heritages Brno, 07/06/2023-10/06/2023.
	2023	Úna Bhreathnach, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Ronan Doherty, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Justin Ó Gliasáin, Críostoir Mac Cárthaigh, Tiber Falzett (2023) SIEF2023 The folklore of Árainn collected by islanders: Bailiúchán Béaloidis Árann Brno, 07/06/2023-10/06/2023.
	2023	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Tiber Falzett, Will Lamb, Jamshid Tehrani, Beatrice Alex, Barbara Hillers, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (2023) ICA-SUV Providing full-text access to Scottish and Irish folklore archives: Decoding Hidden Heritages Dublin, 29/05/2023-31/05/2023.
	2023	Úna Bhreathnach & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2023) FIAT/IFTA Media Management Seminar 2023 – Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Media Archives: Transforming and researching the news: the National Corpus of Irish project Dublin City University, Ireland, 25/05/2023-26/05/2023.
	2022	William Lamb & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2022) Scottish-Irish Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Relations: Arts and Humanities in Focus Decoding Hidden Heritages in Gaelic Traditional Narrative with Text-Mining and Phylogenetics Edinburgh, 11/10/2022-11/10/2022.
	2022	Jonathan Cherry; Brian Ó Raghallaigh; Úna Bhreathnach (2022) EUROGEO Reading Ireland’s colonial and postcolonial toponymic landscapes Lesvos, Greece, 05/05/2022-06/05/2022.
	2021	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2021) Exploring texts: revealing hidden heritage Logainm – Enhancing the public impact of the Placenames Database of Ireland University College Cork, 25/03/2021-.
	2019	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2019) HEAnet Higher Education workshop, Microsoft DCU – Migrating the Gaois research group to Azure Dublin, 27/03/2019-.
	2019	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2019) Decoding the Past: Critical Editions and their Editors Gaois: Wisdom Gained from Building Websites for the Humanities Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 01/11/2019-.
	2019	Úna Bhreathnach, Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2019) Léachtaí Cholm Cille Ní hualach do dhuine an léann: meithleacha pobail i ngort na Gaeilge Ollscoil Mhá Nuad, 27/04/2019-.
	2019	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2019) OSCAIL: creating a dialogue on the archaeological resources in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy Developing the infrastructure for the Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie) Dublin, 22/03/2019-22/03/2019.
	2018	Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Michal Boleslav Měchura (2018) EAFT Terminology Summit 2018 Terminologue: an open-source terminology management platform Donostia-San Sebastián, 22/11/2018-23/11/2018.
	2018	Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2018) Presentation for the European Commission - Directorate-General for Translation (CCE-DG T) Terminology work in Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge Brussels, 12/11/2018-12/11/2018.
	2018	Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Hugh Rowland and Christine Herwig (2018) EURALEX XVIII International Congress The GA IATE Project: a discursive and interactive partnership for terminology support Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17/07/2018-21/07/2018.
	2018	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2018) Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge Research Seminar Foghraíocht athruithe tosaigh na Gaeilge DCU, 11/04/2018-.
	2018	Katie Ní Loingsigh, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Úna Bhreathnach & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2018) Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) One-Day Symposium 2018: Corpus Research in Challenging Contexts Corpas na Gaeilge Comhaimseartha: a monolingual corpus of contemporary written Irish Maynooth, 24/02/2018-.
	2017	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2017) Oireachtas na Samhna Meitheal Logainm.ie: Mionlogainmneacha na hÉireann Killarney, 02/11/2018-02/11/2018.
	2017	Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Úna Bhreathnach, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Katie Ní Loingsigh & Colm Ó Ciardubháin (2017) Electronic Lexicography In The 21st Century (eLex 2017) Terminology implantation for a lesser-used language – a corpus-based assessment Leiden, the Netherlands, 19/09/2017-21/09/2017.
	2017	Úna Bhreathnach, Gearóid Ó Cleircín & Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2017) ‘Ar an Imeall i Lár an Domhain?’: An tairseachúlacht i litríocht agus i gcultúr na hÉireann agus na hEorpa An sluafhoinsiú – tairseach úr idir an taighdeoir agus an pobal Prague, Czech Republic, 14/09/2017-16/09/2017.
	2017	Katie Ní Loingsigh, Brian Ó Raghallaigh & Gearóid Ó Cleircín (2017) 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2017) The Design and Development of Corpas na Gaeilge Comhaimseartha (Corpus of Contemporary Irish) University of Birmingham, 24/07/2017-28/07/2017.
	2017	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2017) DBpedia Community Meeting 2017 (Language, Data and Knowledge 2017) Logainm.ie data use cases Galway, 21/06/2017-21/06/2017.
	2017	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2017) Comhdháil na nDéise A Background and Context to Logainm.ie Waterford, 15/06/2017-15/06/2017.
	2016	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2016) 2nd Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW2) Scientific Committee Paris, 04/07/2016-04/07/2016.
	2016	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Michal Boleslav Měchura & Katie Ní Loingsigh (2016) SNSBI Twenty-fifth Spring Conference Towards a database of Irish surnames Maynooth, 15/04/2016-17/04/2016.
	2016	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2016) SNSBI Pre-conference workshop: Tools for sharing minor placenames Meitheal Logainm.ie Dublin, 14/04/2016-14/04/2016.
	2016	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2016) SNSBI Pre-conference workshop: Tools for sharing minor placenames Programme Committee Dublin, 14/04/2016-14/04/2016.
	2015	Finnegan, A., Ó Raghallaigh, B. & Měchura, M. B. (2015) Church and Settlement in Ireland: landscape, life and legacy The distribution of ecclesiastical elements in Irish placenames/Dáileadh eilimintí eaglasta i logainmneacha na hÉireann Dublin, 27/04/2015-27/04/2015.
	2014	Ní Loingsigh, K. & Ó Raghallaigh B. (2014) Europhras Harping on a new string: the search for Irish-language idioms Paris, 10/09/2014-12/09/2014.
	2014	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2014) 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW) Programme Committee & Scientific Committee Dublin, 23/08/2014-23/08/2014.
	2014	Ó Raghallaigh, B. (2014) British and Irish Sound Archives (BISA) Conference Producing pronunciation guides for Irish toponyms on logainm.ie Dublin, 16/05/2014-17/05/2014.
	2013	Ó Raghallaigh, B., Nic Lochlainn, M. (2013) An Chomhdháil ar Litríocht agus Cultúr na Gaeilge Dúchas.ie: Digitiú Chnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann Galway, 11/10/2013-12/10/2013.
	2013	Lopes, N., Grant, R., Ó Raghallaigh, B., Ó Carragáin, E., Collins, S., & Decker, S. (2013) Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets (LCPD 2013) Linked Logainm: Enhancing Library Metadata using Linked Data of Irish Place Names Malta, 26/09/2013-26/09/2013.
	2012	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2012) Placenames workshop: Management and dissemination of toponymic data online Programme Committee Dublin, 24/09/2012-25/09/2012.
	2012	Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2012) 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC7) The production of eclipsed consonants among young speakers of Irish Rennes, France, 22/06/2012-23/06/2012.
	2012	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2012) 7th Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC7) Programme Committee & Scientific Committee Rennes, 22/06/2012-23/06/2012.
	2010	Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2010) 6th Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC6) An experimental phonetic investigation of Irish initial consonant mutations University College Dublin, Ireland, 10/09/2010-12/09/2010.
	2010	Welby P., Ní Chiosáin M., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2010) Phonlex 2010 Une enquête phonétique préliminaire des consonnes initiales mutées de l'irlandais Toulouse, France, 08/09/2010-10/09/2010.
	2009	Měchura M. B., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2009) International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML) XII User-Friendliness: the key to promoting a minority language on the Internet Tartu and Võru, Estonia, 28/05/2009-30/05/2009.
	2007	Ní Chasaide A., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2007) Mercator Media Seminar Linguistic diversity and the media: strategies and resources for language acquisition Irish text-to-speech synthesis and possible educational applications Cardiff, Wales, 26/01/2007-26/01/2007.
	2006	Ó Raghallaigh B. (2006) SLSCS Postgraduate Seminar Corpus Collection and Developing Letter-to-Sound Rules Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 01/02/2006-01/02/2006.
	2006	Ó Raghallaigh B., Berthelsen H. (2006) 10ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge Sintéis na Gaeilge agus Corpas Urlabhra Glasgow, Scotland, 01/04/2006-01/04/2006.
	2006	Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Zoerner E., Berthelsen H., Ní Chasaide A., Gobl C. (2006) Colloquium of British Academic Phoneticians Developing text-to-speech for Irish (Gaelic) Edinburgh, Scotland, 10/04/2006-12/04/2006.
	2005	Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Ní Chasaide A., Wogan J. (2005) 9ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge Anótáil chorpais urlabhra Ghaeilge Dublin, Ireland, 09/04/2005-09/04/2005.
	2005	Wogan J., Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á. (2005) Current Issues in Speech Science Irish TTS synthesis Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 01/04/2005-01/04/2005.
	2005	Ní Bhriain Á., Ó Raghallaigh B. (2005) WISPR Satellite Workshop of the 11th Annual Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers (NAACLT) Acmhainní próiseála urlabhra don Ghaeilge agus don Bhreatnais Bangor, Wales, 09/06/2005-12/06/2005.
	2004	Ó Raghallaigh B., Ní Bhriain Á., Ní Chasaide A., Wogan J. (2004) 8ú Comhdháil do Theangeolaíocht na Gaeilge Acmhainní próiseála urlabhra don Ghaeilge agus don Bhreatnais (WISPR) Dublin, Ireland, 30/04/2004-01/05/2004.

Thesis

	Year	Publication
	2010	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2010) Multi-dialect phonetisation for Irish text-to-speech synthesis: a modular approach. Trinity College Dublin: THES [Link]
	2003	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2003) Irish Grammar Checking: A Prototype Implementation. Trinity College Dublin: THES

Newspaper

	Year	Publication
	2004	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2004) Coláiste na Tríonóide chun tosaigh ó thaobh na teicneolaíochta. The University Record (TCD): NEWSA

Blog

	Year	Publication
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Lá Fhéile Colm Cille: explore the hidden folklore connections between Ireland and Scotland. Gaois: BLOG [Link]
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Lá Fhéile Colm Cille: fiosraigh na naisc fholaithe béaloidis idir Éirinn agus Albain. Gaois: BLOG [Link]
	2022	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2022) Uirlisí le haghaidh API Logainm. Gaois: BLOG [Link]
	2020	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2020) Bunachar sloinnte Gaeilge. Gaois: BLOG [Link]

Online Article

	Year	Publication
	2025	Brian Ó Raghallaigh (2025) Taking more care in how we choose placenames could help to avoid renaming furores. TheJournal Voices: ELEA [Link]

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Historical Dictionary of Irish Advisory Board		01/06/2025 - 31/05/2030
	Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) Board		01/04/2025 - 31/03/2028
	Coiste Eagarthóireachta Fhoclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge		13/05/2016 - 31/10/2018
	Coiste Bainistíochta Fhoclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge		01/11/2011 - 31/05/2025
	Meitheal LeabhairCOMHAR		18/01/2011 - 21/03/2013

Professional Associations

Association	Function	From / To
SIEF Working Group on Archives	Member	-
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)	Member	-
Core Interest Group for Irish Language Technology (CIGILT)	Member	-

Education

	Start date	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	01/09/2004	Trinity College Dublin	Ph.D.	Speech Technology
	01/09/1999	Trinity College Dublin	B.A. (Mod.)	Computer Science, Linguistics and Irish

Languages

Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
Irish	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
Scottish Gaelic	Functional	Basic	Basic
French	Functional	Basic	Basic

Media

Title	Year	Type	Authors
TheJournal Voices – Taking more care in how we choose placenames could help to avoid renaming furores	2025	Newspaper column (online)	Brian Ó Raghallaigh
The Today Show – Meitheal Logainm	2018	Television interview/panel discussion	Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Aengus Finnegan
CareersPortal.ie – Third Level Lecturer	2017	Podcast	Brian Ó Raghallaigh

Outreach Activities

Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
2026	Advisory Work	Scoil Neasáin	Community member of primary Gaelscoil Board of Management.
2026	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Institute for Language and Folklore in Sweden	Talk on Irish language and folklore digital resources at the Institute for Language and Folklore in Sweden.
2025	Community-based research	The Heritage Council	Series of workshops on minor placenames delivered in Sligo, Dublin, Ennis and Castleblaney to Local Authority Heritage Officers and Local History Groups with funding from the Heritage Council via Research Ireland.
2025	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Clare County Council	Presentation on best practice in naming new streets in Ireland to Clare County Council Planning Section.
2025	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	Local Government GIS User Group	Online workshop on the Logainm API for Local Authority GIS officers.
2017	Educational Outreach/Public Engagement	The Heritage Council	Talks about Meitheal Dúchas.ie and Meitheal Logainm.ie in public libraries as part of Heritage Week 2017.

Enterprise Engagement

	Year	Engagement Type	Client	Description
	2019	Invited talk/presentation	Microsoft	Talk entitled ”DCU – Migrating the Gaois research group to Azure” at the Microsoft / HEAnet Higher Education workshop.

Research Interests

téarmeolaíocht, ainmeolaíocht, frásaíocht, béaloideaseolaíocht, acmhainní gréasáin, bunachair léacsacha, daonnachtaí digiteacha, foghraíocht, fóineolaíocht, teicneolaíocht teanga

terminology, onomastics, phraseology, folkloristics, web resources, lexical databases, digital humanities, phonetics, phonology, language technology

Research Projects

Title	Role	Start date	End date
Corpais Gaois	DCU PI	01/01/2025	31/12/2025
Logainm 2023-2025	DCU PI	01/01/2023	31/12/2025
Decoding Hidden Heritages in Gaelic Traditional Narrative	DCU PI	01/08/2021	31/07/2024
Logainm.ie	DCU PI	01/01/2017	31/12/2022
An Foclóir Nua Béarla-Gaeilge (www.focloir.ie): Comhaid fuaime breise (2016)	DCU PI	04/01/2016	30/06/2016
Transcription of an Irish conversational speech corpus	DCU PI	01/03/2014	01/03/2016

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Murphy,Kate	PhD-track	Supervisor
	Clifford,Teresa	PhD-track	Supervisor

Teaching Interests

Gaeilge, teangeolaíocht, ainmeolaíocht, bunachair sonraí, teangeolaíocht chorpais.

Irish, linguistics, onomastics, databases, corpus linguistics.

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2025-26	Ainmeolaíocht na Gaeilge	LIG1006
2024-26	Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge	LIG1004
2023-25	Taighde Corpais	LIG1010
2022-23	Taighde Corpais	FN568
2022-23	Ainmeolaíocht	FN348
2011-23	Miontráchtas	FN526
2010-23	Bunachair Sonraí & Bainistiú Acmhainní Digiteacha	FN530
2008-24	Teangeolaíocht	FN341
2008-13	Scileanna Teanga: Acmhainní agus Foinsí	FN136
2008-12	Feasacht Teanga	FN142
2008-10	Scileanna Teanga: Réimeanna Scríbhneoireachta	FN141