Ríonach uí Ógáin is former Director of the National Folklore Collection, UCD. She has published widely in Irish and in English on traditional music and song and has also published a number of compact discs with accompanying booklets. She was editor of Béaloideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society from 2009 - 2018. Her publications include The Otherworld: Music and Song from Irish Tradition with Tom Sherlock (2012) . She edited the diaries of Séamus Ennis published in 2007 'Mise an Fear Ceoil' Séamus Ennis - Dialann Taistil 1942-1946 (2007), which appeared in translation in 2009 entitled Going to the Well for Water: The Field Diaries of Séamus Ennis. A Festschrift in her honour entitled Life, Lore and Song was published in 2019 by Four Courts Press.