# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/t-f-o-rahilly
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:34:51.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/t-f-o-rahilly"
name: "T. F. O'Rahilly"
slug: "t-f-o-rahilly"
description: "Thomas Francis O'Rahilly was an influential Irish scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly in the fields of historical linguistics and Irish dialects. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and died in Dublin in 1953. He is the creator of O'Rahilly's historical model, which has since been discredited."
tagline: "Irish linguist (1882–1953)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882-11-11"
deathDate: "1953-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.15040312168249
  historical:           8.816056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Томас Френсіс О'Рахіллі"
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    title: "تى. اف. اوراهيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "T. F. O'Rahilly"
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  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._F._O'Rahilly"
    title: "T. F. O'Rahilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_O%E2%80%99Rahilly"
    title: "Thomas Francis O’Rahilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._F._O'Rahilly"
    title: "T. F. O'Rahilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._F._O'Rahilly"
    title: "T. F. O'Rahilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Rathile"
    title: "Tomás Ó Rathile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_%C3%93_Rathaile"
    title: "Tomás Ó Rathaile"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_O'Rahilly"
    title: "Thomas Francis O'Rahilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Francis_O%E2%80%99Rahilly"
    title: "Thomas Francis O’Rahilly"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump