[2] Published in 1985, Lysaght's book The banshee: a study in beliefs and legends about the Irish supernatural death-messenger was based on her PhD thesis.
She is the current Chair of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore's Working Group on Food Research.
[1] Lysaght has been awarded scholarships and guest professorships at a number of international universities and institutes, such as Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
[2] She is also an elected member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture, who, In 2013, awarded her the Torsten Janckes minnesfond prize for her "outstanding contribution to folkloristic and ethnological scholarship".
[4] In 2013 Lysaght was also awarded the Coote Lake Medal of the Folklore Society, "for outstanding research and scholarship".