| "Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken" : Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | Blackwell Publishers | 2006 |
| 'Did that play of mine ...?' : theatre, commemoration and 1916 | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 2018 |
| 'Our revels now are ended' : Irish studies in Britain - origins and aftermath | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| 'Pissing in the gale of history' : contemporary Protestant culture and the 'ancient curse' | Cairns, DavidRichards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 1988 |
| 'The outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind' : the critical condition of Synge and McDonagh | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| 'To me, here is more like there'. Irish drama and criticism in the 'collision culture' | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 2007 |
| Dion Boucicault and the globalised Irish stage | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | | 2020 |
| Irish Studies in Britain | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 2013 |
| Mapping Irish theatre : theories of space and place | Morash, ChrisRichards, Shaun | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cambridge University Press | 2017 |
| Plays of ever changing Ireland | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| Polemics on the Irish past : the 'return to the source' in Irish literary revivals | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 1991 |
| The Cambridge companion to twentieth century Irish drama | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Cambridge University Press | 2004 |
| The country's true place of reformation : the contemporary Irish history play | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| The triple play of Irish history | Maley, WillyMorash, ChrisRichards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 1997 |
| To bind the northern to the southern stars : Field Day in Derry and Dublin | Richards, Shaun | Article in Book | | 2003 |
| Writing Ireland : colonialism, nationalism and culture | Cairns, DavidRichards, Shaun | Monograph or Collective Volume | Manchester University Press | 1988 |
| “Unthreatening in the provincial Irish air” : Ireland’s modernist theatre | Richards, Shaun | Article in Journal | | 2018 |