| 1916 rising - the Limerick connection | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1997 |
| A Limerick woman's account of the Titanic disaster | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| Desmond Ryan, Lieut. Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, 1916. | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Devoy's post bag, 1871-1928. Vol. 1, 1871-80; vol. 2, 1880-1928 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Fallon | 1953 |
| Hungarians in Limerick, 1956-1958 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| James Burke : priest and revolutionary | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| James Connolly | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1966 |
| James Connolly, his life, work and writings | Nevinson, H. W.Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Talbot Press | 1924 |
| James Stephens and Thomas Clarke Luby | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1968 |
| Jewish immigrants in Limerick - a divided community | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1997 |
| John Mitchel and the famine | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1946 |
| John O'Mahony | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1968 |
| Labour and Easter Week : a selection from the writings of James Connolly | Connolly, James, 1868-1916 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Three Candles | 1950 |
| Margaret Pearse | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1942 |
| Margaret Pearse | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1933 |
| Munster Fusiliers at war | Lee, DavidRyan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1997 |
| O'Donovan Rossa and the Reds | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1945 |
| Opposition to the Boer War, Limerick, 1899-1902 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 2004 |
| Remembering Sion: a chronicle of storm and quiet | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | [Arthur Barker, Ltd.] | 1934 |
| Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | The Kerryman | 1945 |
| Sinn Féin policy and practice (1916-1926) | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1968 |
| Socialism and nationalism : a selection from the writings of James Connolly | Connolly, James, 1868-1916
| Monograph or Collective Volume | Three Candles | 1948 |
| St Enda's - fifty years after | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1958 |
| Stephens, Devoy, Tom Clarke | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Book | | 1960 |
| The 1916 poets | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Greenwood Press | 1979 |
| The Fenian chief : a biography of James Stephens | Lynch, PatrickRyan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Gill | 1967 |
| The great influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| The historians and Fenianism | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1957 |
| The Irish Brigades in the South African War 1899-1902 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| The Jews of Limerick | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1984 |
| The Jews of Limerick : part 2 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1985 |
| The Jews, Fr. Creagh and the Mayor's court of conscience | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| The last crusade : Limerick's role in the Spanish Civil War | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 2001 |
| The Limerick visit of Fr. Raus, 1904 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| The man called Pearse | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Maunsell | 1919 |
| The Munster Fusiliers and the South African war 1899-1902, part 1-3 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| The phoenix flame. A study of Fenianism and John Devoy | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Barker | 1937 |
| The Pope's emigrants | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| The rising | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | [s.n.] | 1949 |
| The rising : complete history of Easter week | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Golden Eagle Books | 1949 |
| The Second Munsters 1914-1918 : part 1 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| The Second Munsters 1914-1918 : part 2 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1986 |
| The Second Munsters 1914-1918 : part 3 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| The Second Munsters In France 1914-1918 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| The story of success : being a record of St. Enda's College, September, 1908, to Easter 1916 | Pearse, Patrick Henry, 1879-1916Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Maunsell | 1917 |
| The sword of light : from the Four Masters to Douglas Hyde, 1636-1938 | Ryan, Desmond | Monograph or Collective Volume | Barker | 1939 |
| When a spectre haunted Cork | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1946 |
| Women's suffrage associations in Limerick, 1912-1914 | Ryan, Desmond | Article in Journal | | 1993 |