| 'Finnegan's Wake' and Irish literary history | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | Rodopi | 1988 |
| Ascendancy and tradition in Anglo-Irish literary history from 1789 to 1929 | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | [s.n.] | 1985 |
| Between Burke and the union : reflections on PRO : CO 904/2 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Blood kindred : W. B. Yeats, the life, the death, the politics | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Pimlico | 2005 |
| Convergent criticism : the Biographia Literaria of Vivien Mercer and the state of Irish literary history | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1995 |
| Dissolute characters : Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Manchester University Press | 1993 |
| Dr W. J. Maloney, MC of Edinburgh, Gallipoli and New York | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2002 |
| Dublin 1916: the French connection | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Gill & Macmillan | 2012 |
| Edmund Burke : his image in painting and literature | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Edmund Burke, Yeats and Leo Frobenius : 'The state a tree'? | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2006 |
| Eighteenth-century ascendancy : Yeats and the historians | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| Far-seeing gifts : Hubert Butler, 1900-1991 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1991 |
| Fool of the family : a life of J.M. Synge | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 2000 |
| Francis Stuart : a checklist and commentary | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1971 |
| French revolution ... Anglo-Irish literature ... Beginnings? The case of Maria Edgeworth | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| From Burke to Beckett : ascendancy, tradition and betrayal in literary history | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cork University Press | 1994 |
| Ireland : the union and its aftermath | MacDonagh, Oliver ;McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | University College Dublin | 2003 |
| Irish censorship : some uncomfortable revisions | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| Isaac Butt (1813-1879) and the inner failure of Protestant Home Rule | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1989 |
| J. Sheridan Le Fanu : letters to William Blackwood and John Forster | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein on buildings in Dublin | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Memoirs of a wild goose | Bewley, CharlesDuggan, John P.McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Lilliput Press | 1989 |
| Memories of west Wicklow, 1813-1939 | Hanbidge, MaryHanbidge, WilliamMcCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | University College Dublin Press | 2005 |
| Men of the west | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770) and retrospective localism | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| Opportunities for reflection : an introduction to the quarter-centennial issue of 'Long Room' | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| Reflections on writing and editing with reference to national archives (UK), CO 904/1-3 & HO 161/1-5 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Review article : the historian as writer or critic? Conor Cruise O’Brien and his biographers | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| Robert Emmet and Roger Casement | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| Roger Casement in death : or, haunting the Free State | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | University College Dublin Press in conjunction with the Research Centre in the History of the Book, Institute of English Studies, University of London | 2002 |
| Sheridan Le Fanu and greater Chapelizod | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2011 |
| Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Clarendon Press | 1980 |
| Six letters (1940-1942) written by George Plant (1904-1942), preserved in Military Archives, Dublin; communicated by W.J. McCormack | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| Some commercial and other sources for the Edward Worth Library (1733) | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Some versions of progress under the Union (with special reference to Robert Owen in the 1820s) | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2002 |
| The battle of the books : two decades of Irish cultural debate | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Lilliput Press | 1986 |
| The Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackwell Publishers | 1999 |
| The debate on the union between Great Britain and Ireland, 1797-1800 | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1995 |
| The Dublin paper war of 1786-1788 | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1993 |
| The Easter Proclamation 1916 : A comparative analysis | de Paor, Liam | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts Press in association with the Irish Labour Party | 2016 |
| The historian as writer or critic? : Conor Cruise O'Brien and his biographers | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| The Lawrence project 1990 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1991 |
| The pamphlet debate on the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, 1797-1800 | McCormack, W. J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1996 |
| The tedium of history : an approach to Maria Edgeworth's Patronage (1814) | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 1991 |
| Thomas Orde and some Dublin printing jobs, 1787 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1988 |
| Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814) : a reading of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| Vision and revision in the study of eighteenth-century Irish parliamentary rhetoric | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| What is a forgery or a catalyst? the so-called 'Castle document' of Holy Week 1916 | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Why did Edward Worth (1678-1733) leave his books to Dr Steevens' Hospital? | McCormack, W. J. | Article in Book | | 2006 |