| "Soldiers Are We" : Women in the Irish Rising | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| 'One man whom you can hang if necessary' : the discreet charm of Nevil Macready | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1990 |
| Britain's civil wars : counterinsurgency in the twentieth century | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | | 1986 |
| British policy in Ireland, 1906-1921 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Consensus in Ireland : approaches and recessions | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Clarendon Press | 1988 |
| Contesting the history of modern Ireland [review article] | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1995 |
| Easter 1916 : the Irish rebellion | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | Allen Lane | 2005 |
| Featured Review | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 2022 |
| Force, law and the Irish revolution | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 2016 |
| Historiography : telling the Irish revolution | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 2002 |
| In aid of the civil power : Britain, Ireland, and Palestine 1916-48 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| Ireland : the twentieth century | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | Arnold | 1999 |
| Making sense of Easter 1916 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| Martial law : legal and administrative problems of civil emergency in Britain and the empire, 1800-1940 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1982 |
| Military force and civil authority in the United Kingdom, 1914-1921 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| Military rule in the search for a settlement in Ireland 1919-1921 | Townshend, Charles | Thesis | | |
| Modernisation and nationalism : perspectives in recent Irish history | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1981 |
| Modernization and nationalism : perspectives in recent Irish history | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1981 |
| Policing insurgency in Ireland, 1914-1923 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1992 |
| Political violence in Ireland : government and resistance since 1848 | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | Clarendon Press | 1983 |
| Review article. Religion, war and identity in Ireland | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| Synergy and polarity in Ireland : historical elements of the problem of consensus | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1988 |
| Terror in Ireland : observations on Tynan's 'The Irish Invincibles and their times' | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1987 |
| The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919-1921 : The Development of Political and Military Policies | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | Oxford University Press | 1975 |
| The Irish insurgency 1918-21 : the military problem | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1979 |
| The Irish railway strike of 1920 | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1979 |
| The Irish Republican Army and the development of guerilla warfare | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1979 |
| The Irish War of Independence : context and meaning | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| The making of Irish public culture | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| The making of modern Irish public culture | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1989 |
| The meaning of Irish freedom : constitutionalism in the Free State | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1998 |
| The process of terror in Irish politics | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Republic : the fight for Irish independence, 1918-1923 | Townshend, Charles | Monograph or Collective Volume | Allen Lane | 2013 |
| The suppression of the Easter Rising | Townshend, Charles | Article in Journal | | 1994 |
| The supreme law : public safety and state security in Northern Ireland | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 1993 |
| The worst event in twentieth-century Irish history? 1916 in perspective | Townshend, Charles | Article in Book | | 2008 |