| Attitudes to life and death in the poetry of James Orr, an eighteenth century Ulster weaver | Lunney, Linde Connolly | Article in Journal | | 1985 |
| From Ulster to Delaware : two poems by James Orr about an eighteenth-century emigrant voyage | Carpenter, Andrew | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| James Orr : Ulster-Scot and Poet of the 1798 Rebellion | Baraniuk, Carol | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| James Orr, poet and Irish radical | Baraniuk, Carol | Monograph or Collective Volume | Pickering and Chatto | 2014 |
| Local poets and social history : James Orr, bard of Ballycarry | Akenson, Donald HarmanCrawford, W. H. (William Henry) | Monograph or Collective Volume | | 1977 |
| Reading and orality in early nineteenth-century Ulster poetry : James Orr and his comtemporaries | Lunney, Linde | Article in Book | | 2010 |
| Setting His Own Standard : James Orr's Employment of a Traditional Stanza Form | Baraniuk, Carol | Article in Journal | | 2007 |