| "Sickness", gender and national health insurance in Ireland, 1920s to 1940s | Cousins, Mel | Article in Book | Syracuse University Press | 2012 |
| Charity, philanthropy and poverty in Ireland, 1850-1914 | Cousins, Mel | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Explaining the Irish welfare state : an historical, comparative and political analysis | Cousins, Mel | Monograph or Collective Volume | Edwin Mellen Press | 2005 |
| Philanthropy and poor relief before the poor law, 1801-30 | Cousins, Mel | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Poor Law politics and elections in post-Famine Ireland | Cousins, Mel | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| Poor relief and families in nineteenth-century Ireland and Italy | Cousins, Mel | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| Poor relief in Ireland, 1851-1914 | Cousins, Mel | Thesis | | |
| Registration of the religion of children under the Irish Poor Law, 1838-1870 | Cousins, Mel | Article in Journal | | 2010 |
| Resistance to the collection of Rates under the Poor Law, 1842–44 | Cousins, Mel | Article in Book | | 2019 |
| The birth of social welfare in Ireland, 1922-1952 | Cousins, Mel | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2003 |
| The creation of association : the National Insurance Act, 1911 and approved societies in Ireland | Cousins, Mel | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| The introduction of children's allowances in Ireland, 1939-1944 | Cousins, Mel | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| The Irish parliament and relief of the poor : 1772 legislation establishing houses of industry | Cousins, Mel | Article in Journal | | 2013 |