| 'By blood and by tradition' : race and empire in Eoin MacNeill's interpretation of early Ireland | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2022 |
| 'For fear of oblivion' : archival fragility and persistence from the Middle Ages to 1922 - and beyond | Crooks, PeterJohnston, ElvaMurtagh, Timothy | Article in Journal | | 2023 |
| A sailor on the seas of faith : the individual and the church in 'The Voyage of Máel Dúin': | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Creating communities : elites, ideologies and literature in ninth- and tenth-century Ireland | Johnston, Elva | Thesis | | |
| Early Irish history : the state of the art | Johnston, Elva | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| Eoin MacNeill's early medieval Ireland : a scholarship for politics or a politics of scholarship?
| Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2020 |
| Exiles from the edge? The Irish contexts of Peregrinatio | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Immacallam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig : language and authority in an early-medieval Irish tale | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Kingship made real? Power and the public world in Longes Mac nUislenn | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2011 |
| Literacy and conversion on Ireland's Roman frontier: from emulation to assimilation? | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Literacy and identity in early medieval Ireland | Johnston, Elva | Monograph or Collective Volume | Boydell | 2013 |
| Locating female saints and their foundations in the early medieval Irish martyrologies | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2023 |
| Powerful women or patriarchal weapons? Two medieval Irish saints | Johnston, Elva | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| Religious change and frontier management : reassessing conversion in fourth- and fifth-century Ireland | Johnston, Elva | Article in Journal | | 2018 |
| Review essay : the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols. 4 and 5, and the invention of medieval women | Johnston, Elva | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| The 'pagan' and 'Christian' identities of the Irish female | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2002 |
| The saints of Kerry in the early middle ages | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2020 |
| The salvation of the individual and the salvation of society in Siaburcharpat Con Culaind | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 2001 |
| Timahoe and the Loígse : monasticism | Johnston, Elva | Article in Book | | 1999 |
| Transforming women in Irish hagiography | Johnston, Elva | Article in Journal | | 1995 |