| 'Will not be heard again' : a proposal to combine the resources of the National Library and Trinity College Library | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| Carnegie libraries in Ireland | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| Commodius temples : Roman Catholic church building in nineteenth-century Dublin | Grimes, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | Dublin City Public Libraries | 2010 |
| Irish Carnegie libraries : a catalogue and architectural history | Grimes, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1998 |
| Majestic shrines and graceful sanctuaries : the church architecture of Patrick Byrne, 1783-1864 | Grimes, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic | 2009 |
| Patrick Byrne and St. Paul's Arran Quay, Dublin | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2007 |
| Patrons and architects and the creation of Roman Catholic church architecture in nineteenth-century Dublin | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2015 |
| The library buildings up to 1970 | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Why local history? | Grimes, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2001 |