| A preliminary checklist of works containing Ulster dialect 1700-1900 | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| Agricultural literature for the common reader in eighteenth-century Ulster | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| Books and libraries in Bangor and Hollywood | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1985 |
| Carving and gilding in early nineteenth century Belfast | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| Folk poetry of the Laggan | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| Library provision for children in county Down prior to 1850 | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| Merchants in plenty : Joseph Smyth's Belfast directories of 1807 and 1808 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Ulster Historical Foundation | 1992 |
| Merchants in plenty : Joseph Smyth's Belfast directories of 1807 and 1808 : with an historical introduction and bibliography of Belfast directories to 1900 | Adams, J. R. R. | Monograph or Collective Volume | | 1991 |
| Northern Ireland newspapers : checklist with locations | Adams, J. R. R. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Library Association | 1980 |
| Popular art in Belfast, 1824-36 | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Reading societies in Ulster | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1980 |
| Simms and M'Intyre : creators of the parlour library | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| Some aspects of the influence of printed material on everyday life in eighteenth-century Ulster | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Swine-Tax and Eat-Him-All-Magee : the Hedge Schools and popular education in Ireland | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Book | | 1998 |
| The mass distribution of geographical literature in Ulster 1750-1850 | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| The old circulating libraries of Newry | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The poets laureate of Co. Donegal : rural rhymers of the Laggan in the first decade of the nineteenth century | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1988 |
| The Printed Word and the Common Man : Popular culture in Ulster 1700-1900 | Adams, J. R. R. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast | 1987 |
| The printing of the Montgomery manuscripts 1785-1869 | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| The use of newspapers as an historical source | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Ulster folklife 1738-40, from the pages of the 'Belfast Newsletter' | Adams, J. R. R. | Article in Journal | | 1985 |