| A short bibliography of Irish folk song | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Folk Music Society of Ireland | 1985 |
| A singer of poems : Jimmy McCurry of Myroe | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1981 |
| All the days of his life: Eddie Butcher in his own words. Songs stories and memories of Magilligan, Co. Derry | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Traditional Music Archive | 2011 |
| Carolling at New Ross | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| Early ballads in Ireland, 1968-1985 | Munnelly, TomShields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Monograph or Collective Volume | An Góilín | 2015 |
| In memoriam : Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) | Munnelly, TomShields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 2002 |
| Narrative singing in Ireland : lays, ballads, come-all-yes and other songs | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1993 |
| New dates for old songs, 1766-1803 | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| Nineteenth-century Irish song chapbooks and ballad sheets | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Oliver Goldsmith and popular song | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1983 |
| Popular broadsides in the Library of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1987 |
| Popular music in eighteenth-century Dublin | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Folk Music Society of Ireland /Na Píobairí Uilleann | 1985 |
| Printed aids to folk singing, 1700-1900 | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| Shamrock, rose and thistle : folk-singing in north Derry | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1981 |
| The walling of New Ross : a thirteenth-century poem in French | | Article in Journal | | 1975 |
| The woodcuts of Irish ballad sheets, 1626-1960 | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Book | NA | 1994 |
| Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts, vol. 1. | NA | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Traditional Music Archive | 1998 |
| Tunes of the Munster pipers: Irish traditional music from the James Goodman manuscripts, vol. 2 | NA | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Traditional Music Archive | 2013 |
| Varieties of the supernatural in song | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| William Allingham and folk song | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Journal | | 1974 |