| A history of Ireland's school inspectorate, 1831-2008 | Coolahan, John,O'Donovan, Patrick F. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2009 |
| Education | Coolahan, JohnNorth, Reg | Article in Book | | 1994 |
| Educational policy for national schools, 1960-85 | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1989 |
| From royal university to national university, 1879-1908 | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| George Cunningham - lifelong learner and lifelong educator | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Higher education, 1908-84 | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Imperialism and the Irish national school system | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Irish education : its history and structure | Coolahan, John | Monograph or Collective Volume | Institute of Public Administration | 1981 |
| Patterns of recent educational change in Ireland and abroad | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Perceptions of Ireland and its past in nineteenth-century national school textbooks | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| Pre-university education, 1921-84 | Akenson, Donald HarmanCoolahan, JohnFarren, Sean | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Primary education as a political issue in O'Connell's time | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1991 |
| The ASTI and post-primary education in Ireland 1909-84 | Coolahan, John | Monograph or Collective Volume | [s.n.] | 1984 |
| The ASTI and the secondary teachers strike of 1920 | Coolahan, John | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The changing context of Irish education | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| The Commission on Higher Education, 1967, and third-level policy in contempory Ireland | Coolahan, John | Article in Journal | | 1990 |
| The daring first decade of the Board of National Education, 1831-41 | Coolahan, John | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| The fortunes of education as a subject of study and of research in Ireland | Coolahan, John | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The impact and aftermath of the Free Education policy initiative | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2018 |
| The impact and aftermath of the Free Education policy initiative | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2018 |
| The influence of Roscrea man, Rev. Professor Tim Corcoran, on curricular policy in the new Irish state | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2017 |
| The Irish and others in Irish nineteenth-century textbooks | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1993 |
| The National University of Ireland and the changing structure of Irish higher education, 1967-2007 | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| The National University of Ireland, 1908-2008 : centenary essays | | Monograph or Collective Volume | University College Dublin Press, on behalf of the National University of Ireland | 2008 |
| The schoolmaster in the new state | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| The secondary school curricular experiment, 1924-1942 : the case of English | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Three eras of English reading in Irish national schools | Coolahan, John | Article in Book | | 1977 |
| Towards the era of lifelong learning : a history of Irish education, 1800-2016 | Coolahan, John | Monograph or Collective Volume | Institute of Public Administration | 2017 |