| 'I have treated you as an artist' : a letter from Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg to Jonathan Fisher | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| 'If the artist be as national as the minstrel' : Irish history on display | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| 'One of our brilliant ornaments' : the death and life of Thomas Foster | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2004 |
| A time and place : two centuries of Irish social life | | Monograph or Collective Volume | National Gallery of Ireland | 2006 |
| Cheating the fell destroyer | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Creating history : stories of Ireland in art | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press & National Gallery of Ireland | 2016 |
| Henry Jones Thaddeus : an Irish artist in Italy | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| Irish fine art in the early modern period; new perspectives on artistic practice, 1620-1820 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 2016 |
| Irish paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland | Figgis, Nicola F.Rooney, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | National Gallery of Ireland | 2001 |
| Printing Carton : the 2nd Duke of Leinster, Thomas Roberts and William Ashford | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2014 |
| Radharc ar gCúl: A backward glance. The color of Ireland: "Twelve Irish Artists" | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| Regarding Irish eighteenth-century artists : comment, culture and community | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| The curious St George Hare | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Book | | 2006 |
| The Irish Exhibition at Olympia, 1888. | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| The midday meal | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| The painter and the poet: Michael George Brennan (1839-1871) and Laura Catherine Redden (1839-1923) | Rooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Thomas Roberts : landscape and patronage in eighteenth-century Ireland | Laffan, William,Rooney, Brendan | Monograph or Collective Volume | Churchill House Press for the National Gallery of Ireland | 2009 |
| Two new works by Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) | Laffan, WilliamRooney, Brendan | Article in Journal | | 2012 |