| "Ireland's eye : the photographs of John Welch" : review | Weatherup, D. R. M. | Article in Journal | | 1978 |
| 'All in a day's work' : Robert John Welch and his world | Pollock, Vivienne | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| A century in focus : photography and photographers in the north of Ireland, 1839-1939 | Maguire, W. A. (William Alexander) | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff and Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland | 2000 |
| Framing the West : images of rural Ireland, 1891-1920 | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 2007 |
| Ireland - in Birmingham | Burns, Maggie | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| Ireland's eye : the photographs of Robert John Welch | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Blackstaff Press | 1977 |
| Picturing poverty : colonial photography and the Congested Districts Board | Carville, Justin | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| R.J. Welch - conchologist | Stelfox, A.W. | Article in Journal | | 1936 |
| R.J. Welch - photographer | Hogg, A. R. | Article in Journal | | 1936 |
| R.J. Welch - reminiscences | Jackson, J. Wilfrid | Article in Journal | | 1936 |
| Robert John Welch, the accidental folklorist | Walsh, Ciarán | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| Strange behaviours - a history of naturalists and nature studies in the Glens of Antrim | Watson, Philip S. | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Technologies and cultures : Robert J. Welch's western landscapes, 1895-1914 | Baylis, Gail | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| The long line fisherman identified | McQuilken, James | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| Tools of the tourist trade : the photography of R. J. Welch in the tourist literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Connemara and the West | Boran, Marie | Article in Book | | 2007 |
| Welch's Claddagh images | Moloney, Lorna | Article in Book | | 2007 |