| "Good planets in their several speares" - the establishment of the assize circuits in early seventeenth-century Ireland | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 1993 |
| "Great planets in their spheres" : the establishment of the assize court in early seventeenth-century Ireland | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| A Flight of the Earls 'pilgrimage' to Rome | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| An Irish trilogy. The wars of the seventeenth century and the colonisation of Ulster | McCavitt, John | Article in Book | | 1994 |
| An unspeakable parliamentary fracas : the Irish House of Commons, 1613 | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| Doon Rock and the Flight of the Earls | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| Lord Deputy Chichester and the English government's "mandates policy" in Ireland, 1605-1607 | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 1991 |
| Murtagh O'Quinn. O'Neill's 'major-domo ' and the Flight of the Earls | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 2012 |
| Rebels, planters and conspirators : Armagh, 1594-1640 | McCavitt, John | Article in Book | | 2001 |
| Sir Arthur Chichester : Lord deputy of Ireland, 1605-1616 | McCavitt, John | Monograph or Collective Volume | Queen's University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies | 1998 |
| The flight of the earls | McCavitt, John | Monograph or Collective Volume | Gill & Macmillan | 2002 |
| The flight of the earls, 1607 | McCavitt, John | Article in Journal | | 1994 |
| The lord deputyship of Sir Arthur Chichester in Ireland, 1605-16 | McCavitt, John | Thesis | | 1988 |
| The political background to the Ulster plantation, 1607-1620 | McCavitt, John | Article in Book | | 1993 |