| 'As the snake it sheds its skin' - or how the Irish national ideal of the Irish national theatre was abandoned in favour of a corporate trademark, (1902-1906) | Vandevelde, Karen | Article in Book | Four Courts | 2001 |
| A proposed National Theatre (1904) | Ní Riain, Niamh | Article in Journal | | 2018 |
| An economic analysis of a National Theatre : The case of the ‘Abbey’ | O'Hagan, John W. | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| At the cow's rump or in the National Theatre? issues in Gaelic drama, 1922-1939 | O'Leary, Philip | Article in Journal | | 1994 |
| Cathleen Ní Houlihan writes back : Maud Gonne and Irish National Theatre | Quinn, Antoinette | Article in Book | | 1997 |
| Edward Martyn's struggle for an Irish national theatre, 1899-1920 | Nolan, Jerry | Article in Journal | | 2003 |
| Introduction : re-thinking the Abbey and the concept of a national theatre | Morgan, Eileen | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Lady Gregory and Irish national theatre : art, drama, politics | Remport, Eglantina | Monograph or Collective Volume | Palgrave Macmillan | 2018 |
| National theatres in a changing Europe | Wilmer, S. E. | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| On writing national theatre histories | Wilmer, S. E. | Article in Book | | 2004 |
| The Abbey : National Theatre or Little Theatre? | Grene, Nicholas | Article in Journal | | 2007 |
| The Abbey Opens : A First Night Revisited | Levitas, Ben | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| The Abbey Theatre | Blythe, Ernest, 1889-1975 | Monograph or Collective Volume | National Theatre | 1963 |
| The Abbey Theatre : Ireland's national theatre, the first 100 years | FitzSimon, Christopher | Monograph or Collective Volume | Thames & Hudson | 2003 |
| The Abbey, Ireland's national theatre, 1904-78 | Hunt, Hugh | Monograph or Collective Volume | Gill & Macmillan | 1979 |
| The founding years and the Irish national theatre that was not | Harrington, John P. | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| The idea of an eighteenth-century national theatre | Brunström, Conrad | Article in Book | Cambridge University Press | 2020 |
| The National Theatre and Civic Responsibility in the British Isles | Coveney, Michael | Article in Book | | 2008 |
| The Rebirth of Tragedy : Yeats, Nietzche, the Irish National Theatre, and the Anti-Modern Cult of Cuchulain | Moses, Michael Valdez | Article in Journal | | 2004 |
| Writing and rewriting national theatre histories | | Monograph or Collective Volume | University of Iowa Press | 2004 |