| 'You will easy know a doffer' : the folklore of the linen industry in Northern Ireland | Messenger, Betty | Article in Journal | | 1979 |
| Picking up the linen threads | Messenger, Betty | Monograph or Collective Volume | University of Texas Press | 1978 |
| Picking up the linen threads : life in Ulster's mills | Messenger, Betty | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1988 |
| Picking up the linen threads : some folklore of the northern Irish linen industry | Messenger, Betty | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| The folklore of the Irish linen industry | Messenger, Betty | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1981 |
| To be a mill girl | Messenger, Betty | Article in Journal | | 1990 |