| "The battlefield of ideas" : the legitimation of political violence in Northern Ireland | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| Civic and ethnic nationalism in the Celtic vision of Irish sport | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 1999 |
| Ireland, sport and empire | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 1996 |
| Irish Australians, postcolonialism and the English game | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Irish sport | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Loyalism, Linfield and the territorial politics of soccer fandom in Northern Ireland | Bairner, AlanShirlow, Peter | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| Ma, there’s a helicopter on the pitch - sport, leisure and the state in Northern Ireland | Bairner, AlanSugden, John Peter | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| Northern Ireland : sport in a divided society | Bairner, AlanSugden, John Peter | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Paramilitarism | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 1996 |
| Political unionism and sporting nationalism : an examination of the relationship between sport and national identity within the Ulster Unionist tradition | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| Popular culture in Scotland and Ireland, 1800-2000 : sport, politics and religion | Bairner, AlanWalker, Graham | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Simply the (George) Best. Ulster protestantism, conflicted identity and "The Belfast Boys" | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| Sport and the Irish : histories, identities, issues | | Monograph or Collective Volume | University College Dublin Press | 2005 |
| Sport in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| Sport, Irishness and Ulster unionism | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Sport, sectarianism and society in a divided Ireland | Bairner, AlanSugden, John Peter | Monograph or Collective Volume | Leicester University Press | 1993 |
| Still taking sides : sport, leisure and identity | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| The arts and sports | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 1996 |
| The cultural politics of remembrance : sport, place and memory in Belfast and Berlin | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| The GAA in a global sporting context | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 2009 |
| The media | Bairner, Alan | Article in Book | | 1996 |
| Wearing the Baggie Green : the Irish and Australian Cricket | Bairner, Alan | Article in Journal | | 2007 |