| 6 Anne, chapter 19 : 'settling and preserving a publick library for ever' | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2009 |
| A treatise on impressing, 1804 | Hamilton, AlexanderOsborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| An island's law : a bibliographical guide to Ireland's legal past | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2013 |
| Bishop Dixon, the Irish historian and Irish Law | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| Borstal in Ireland : custodial provision for the young adult offender 1906-74 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Institute of Public Administration | 1975 |
| Brehons, serjeants and attorneys : studies in the history of the Irish legal profession | | Monograph or Collective Volume | | 1990 |
| Catholics, land and the popery acts of Anne | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| Constitutionally constructing a sense of oneness : facets of law in Ireland after the Union | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| Ecclesiastical law and the Reformation in Ireland | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Executive failure to enforce judicial decrees : a neglected chapter in nineteenth-century constitutional history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| Explorations in law and history : Irish Legal History Society discourses, 1988-1994 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society | 1995 |
| Extramural pursuits of the eighteenth-century bench | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2001 |
| Forcibly commandeered transport and owner's insurance | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1976 |
| In search of Irish legal history : a map for explorers | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1990 |
| Landmarks in the history of Kings Inns : 1872, 1885, 1921, 1925 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Law and the emergence of modern Dublin : a litigation topography for a capital city | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society | 1996 |
| Law and the spread of literacy : millennial reflections on Boddington's plight | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2000 |
| Law in Ireland, 1916-26 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1972 |
| Legal aspects of the 1798 rising, its suppression and the aftermath | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Letters to Ireland - professional enlightenment from the English bench | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| Literature, judges and the law | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2008 |
| Murder or manslaughter? A 1739 decision of the Irish King's Bench | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2004 |
| Mysteries and solutions : experiencing Irish legal history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2001 |
| On selling cathedral libraries : reflections on a recent cy-prés application | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| Partition and the northern borstal boy,1921-7 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1969 |
| Publishing the law : John Finlay, 1780-1856 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2006 |
| Puzzles from Irish law reporting history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1993 |
| Recent writing on modern Irish legal history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| Recollections of things past : trams their clientele and the law | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1995 |
| Roman law in Ireland | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1990 |
| Some nineteenth-century Irish litigation over commons and enclosures | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| Studies in Irish legal history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 1999 |
| The failure to enact an Irish Bill of Rights : a gap in Irish constitutional history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| The history of Irish legal publishing : a challenge unmet | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2000 |
| The inauguration of the Irish Legal History Society | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1989 |
| The Irish custom of tracts | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1997 |
| The Irish Legal History Society : inaugural addresses | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society | 1989 |
| The Irish legal system, 1796-1877 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1996 |
| The Irish stage : a legal history | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts|Irish Legal History Society | 2015 |
| The Irish statutes by authority, 3 : Edward II to the Union, AD 1310-1800 | Ireland Parliament, 1297-1800Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Round Hall Press | 1995 |
| The Law School of University College Dublin | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Four Courts | 2014 |
| The law school's early professoriate | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| The law school's early professoriate | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| The lawyers of the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| The legislation of the pre-Union Irish parliament | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1995 |
| The regulation of the admission of attorneys and solicitors in Ireland, 1600-1866 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| The society's foundation | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| The title of the last chief justice of Ireland | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Journal | | 1974 |
| Tribulations of a king's printer : George Grierson II in court | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Wills that go missing : the quest for the last testament of Christopher Wandesford, Lord deputy of Ireland 1640 | Osborough, W. N. (William Nial) | Article in Book | | 2006 |