| "My ways are my own" : female, family and farm in Hanna Bell's December Bride | O'Byrne, Deirdre | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| Rooted in Ulster : nine Northern writers | Greacen, Robert | Monograph or Collective Volume | Lagan Press | 2000 |
| Sam Hanna Bell : a biography | Mahon, Seán | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 2000 |
| Sam Hanna Bell : a biography | McMahon, Sean | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1999 |
| The antiphon, the banderol and the hollow ball : Sam Hanna Bell, 1909-1990 | Carson, Douglas | Article in Journal | | 1990 |
| Violent imaginations : the Ulster novel, 1900-1996; a study of seven Ulster writers: Shan F. Bullock, St John Ervine, Forrest Reid, Sam Hanna Bell, Maurice Leitch, Robert McLiam Wilson and Glenn Patterson | Mills, Richard | Thesis | | |