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Kay Muhr read Celtic Studies at Edinburgh and gained a PhD from the same university. After postgraduate fellowships in Cambridge, Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, she became a research fellow on the Ordnance Survey Memoir project in Queen's University's Institute for Irish Studies. She was Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project in Irish & Celtic Studies in Queen's from its foundation in 1987 until 2010. She is the author of vol. 6 in the Place-Names of Northern Ireland series, an introduction to local place-name study called Celebrating Ulster's Townlands, and joint author (with Patrick McKay) of Lough Neagh Places: Their Names and Origins (2007). She has been president of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and chairman of the Ulster Place-Name Society (www.ulsterplacename.org).
Liam Ó hAisibéil is a Lecturer in Irish and Celtic Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His teaching and research interests include onomastics and medieval Irish literature. He has spent periods of research with the Locus Project at University College, Cork, as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University, and as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland and of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences.
Summary
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland contains explanations of over 3,800 family names, of any origin, that are established in Ireland, both in the Republic and in Northern Ireland. It provides an entry for every family name that has more than 100 bearers in the 1911 Census of Ireland.
