| 'Burnt magic' | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| A re-assessment of the "great sepulchral mound" containing a Viking burial at Donnybrook, Dublin | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| A re-evaluation of the find-spot of, and a possible context for, the anthropoid hilted sword | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2009 |
| A reconsideration of the location and context of Viking burials at Kilmainham/Islandbridge, Dublin | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 1998 |
| A tale of two cemeteries | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1995 |
| Burial in early medieval Ireland : politics and religion | Bhreathnach, EdelO'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| Burial practices in Ireland : first to seventh centuries AD | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Churches of south-east county Dublin, seventh to twelfth century | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Contacts between Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh century | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1993 |
| Early medieval burial on Tara - fact or fiction? | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| Early medieval sentinel warrior burials | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| Excavation of a multi-period burial site at Ballymacaward, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| Excavations at Dundrum Castle, Dundrum, Co. Dublin | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| From burial among the ancestors to burial among the saints: an assessment of some burial rites in Ireland from the Fifth to the Eighth centuries AD | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Into the west : a fifth/sixth-century lady and her horse join the ancestors | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Investigating mobility and migration in the later Irish Iron Age | O'Brien, ElizabethStandish, Christopher,Wilson, Jacqueline Cahill, | Article in Book | | 2014 |
| Irish boundary Ferta, their physical manifestation and historical context | Bhreathnach, EdelO'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2011 |
| Iron age burial practices in Leinster : continuity and change | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Journal | | 1990 |
| Literary Insights into the Basis of Some Burial Practices in Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Mapping Death
Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2020 |
| Murder mystery at Dundrum Castle, Co. Dublin | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2009 |
| Pagan and Christian burial in Ireland during the first millennium AD : continuity and change | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Pagan or Christian? Burial in Ireland during the 5th to 8th centuries | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2009 |
| Pre-historic and early historic remains | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 1987 |
| Rediscovering Columba's monastery at Durrow, Co. Offaly | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The location and context of Viking burials at Kilmainham and Islandbridge, Dublin | O'Brien, Elizabeth | Article in Book | | 1998 |