| "A particular flair, a hound's nose, a keen scent" : Seán O'Faolain's editorship of 'The Bell' | Jordan, Heather Bryant | Article in Journal | | 1994 |
| "Something solid to put your heel on": Representation and transformation in 'The Bell' | Matthews, Kelly | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Beginnings and blind alleys : The Bell 1940-1954 | Carson, Niall | Thesis | | |
| Countering the hegemony of the Irish national canon : the modernist rhetoric of Seán O'Faoláin (1938-50) | McNally, Mark | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Distress signals: Sean O'Faolain and the fate of twentieth-century Irish literature | Cleary, Joe | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Irish nationalism and Irish Catholicism: a study in cultural identity | McCaffrey, Lawrence J., 1925- | Article in Journal | | 1973 |
| Modernization's lost pasts: Sean O'Faolain, the 'Bell', and Irish modernization before Lemass | Quigley, Mark S.
| Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| O'Faoláin's way : pages from a memoir | Lynch, Patrick | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| Public intellectuals as policy makers : the democratization of culture and Sean O’Faoláin’s Arts Council, 1956–1959 | McKenzie, Brian | Article in Journal | | 2020 |
| Rebel by vocation : Seán O'Faoláin and the generation of The Bell | Carson, Niall | Monograph or Collective Volume | Manchester UP | 2016 |
| Reply to Tierney | Binchy, D. A. (Daniel Anthony), 1900-1989 | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Review article: Kelly Mattews, 'The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity' (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012), 208 pages | Fanning, Bryan | Article in Journal | | 2013 |
| Seán O'Faolain : a life | Harmon, Maurice | Monograph or Collective Volume | Constable | 1994 |
| Sean O'Faolain and Irish identity | McCaffrey, Lawrence J., 1925- | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| Sean O'Faolain as biographer and commentator | Arndt, Marie | Article in Book | | 1998 |
| Sean O'Faoláin's discourse of 'the betrayal of the Republic' in mid-twentieth century Ireland | McNally, Mark | Article in Book | | 2006 |
| Sean O'Faolain's revision of 'Vive Moi!': Autobiography or Palimpsest? | Leech, Muireann | Article in Journal | | 2015 |
| The barbaric note : Seán O'Faoláin's early years at the BBC | Carson, Niall | Article in Journal | | 2013 |
| The book at the centre of the stage : Friel's 'Making history' and 'The Field Day anthology of Irish writing' | Hohenleitner, Kathleen | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| The long shadow of Seán O'Faoláin's 'Great O'Neill' | Morgan, Hiram | Article in Journal | | 2016 |
| Trespassers : a memoir | O'Faolain, Julia | Monograph or Collective Volume | Faber & Faber | 2013 |