| ' Burned with ... turf' : The unique charm of Irish ceramics | Francis, Peter | Article in Book | Art Institute of Chicago | 2015 |
| 'A wide deserted waste'? Rediscovered views of Ballyfin by William Ashford, c.1784 | Laffan, WilliamMulligan, Kevin V. | Article in Journal | | 2010 |
| 'I have treated you as an artist' : a letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Jonathan Fisher | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| 'Imitators of one another' : a source for George Barret | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2015 |
| 'One of our brilliant ornaments' : the death and life of Thomas Foster | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2004 |
| 'The Cries of Dublin' revisited: four new drawings by Hugh Douglas Hamilton | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2018 |
| Abbey Leix : an Irish home and its demesne | Laffan, William | Monograph or Collective Volume | Churchill House Press | 2017 |
| Accommodating the 'graces of sculpture': drawings by Giovanni Battista Cipriani for the attic statuary of the Casino at Marino | Laffan, WilliamMulligan, Kevin V. | Article in Journal | | 2013 |
| Behind the gorgeous mask : Hugh Douglas Hamilton's 'Cries of Dublin' rediscovered | Laffan, William | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Christopher P. Monkhouse (1947-2021): a tribute | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2020 |
| Exhibiting art in Georgian Ireland : The Society of Artists' exhibitions recreated | NA | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Georgian Society | 2018 |
| Fota's interior landscape | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| From paper to pillar : 'Miscellanea structura curiosa' and the Cumberland column | Laffan, William | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Introduction. Colonial Ireland : artistic crossroads | Laffan, William | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Ireland : crossroads of art and design, 1690-1840 | | Article in Book | Art Institute of Chicago; distributed by Yale University Press | 2015 |
| Michael Ford's portrait of Lord Chief Justice Henry Singleton | Fitzgerald, Desmond, Knight of GlinLaffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| Miscelanea Structura Curiosa | Chearnley, Samuel | Monograph or Collective Volume | Churchhill House Press | 2005 |
| Mitres and mansions | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Obituary | Laffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Painting Ireland : topographical views from Glin Castle | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Churchill House Press | 2006 |
| Portraits and pantheons | Laffan, William | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Printing Carton : the 2nd Duke of Leinster, Thomas Roberts and William Ashford | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2014 |
| Room for books : paintings of Irish libraries | Laffan, William | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Georgian Society | 2016 |
| The cries of Dublin | Hamilton, Hugh DouglasLaffan, William | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Georgian Society | 2003 |
| The Malone Mausoleum Kilbixy, Co. Westmeath | Laffan, William | Monograph or Collective Volume | The Follies Trust | 2024 |
| The sublime and the beautiful : Irish art 1700-1830 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Pyms Gallery | 2001 |
| Theft, concealment and exposure: Nathaniel Hone's 'The Spartan Boy' | Laffan, William | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Thomas Roberts : landscape and patronage in eighteenth-century Ireland | Laffan, William,Rooney, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | Churchill House Press for the National Gallery of Ireland | 2009 |
| Two new works by Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2012 |
| William McCleary and the trade iun pirated caricatures in early nineteenth-century Dublin: part 1 - 'Unlawfully Participating in the profits of their Labour' | Beltrametti, SilviaLaffan, William | Article in Journal | | 2020 |