| 'A queer story' : the inquisitorial manuscripts | Tedeschi, John | Article in Book | Royal Irish Academy for the Library of Trinity College Dublin | 1986 |
| 'Entre nous' : some notes by Erskine Childers on the making of the Anglo-Irish treaty, 1921 | Bowman, John | Article in Book | Royal Irish Academy for the Library of Trinity College Dublin | 1986 |
| 'Here's fine work : here's fine suicide, paracide and simulation' | Benson, Charles | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| 'They glory much in their library' | Fox, Peter | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| A select bibliography of the library | O'Brien, Ann | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Bibliotheca Quiniana | Morrow, Veronica | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Early Christian manuscripts | Simms, George Otto | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Jonathan Swift | Wooley, James | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Maps and atlases | Andrews, J. H. (John Harwood) | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Michael Davitt's travels abroad, 1884-1905 | O'Mahony, Felicity | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Modern Irish literary manuscripts | Grene, Nicholas | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Nineteenth-century Irish song chapbooks and ballad sheets | Shields, Hugh, 1929-2008 | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Papyri | McGing, B. C.Parke, A. W. | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The 1798 rebellion | McDowell, R. B. (Robert Brendan), 1913-2011 | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Agostini Plutarch : an illuminated Venetian incunable | Armstrong, Lilian | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Dillon papers | Ó Seanóir, Stuart | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Dolmen Press collection | Nudds, Christine | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Fagel collection | Kinane, Vincent | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The first American edition of 'The Vicar of Wakefield' | Pollard, M. | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Irish-language manuscripts | Mac Niocaill, Gearóid | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The Long Room | Crookshank, Anne | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| The manuscript collection of James Ussher | Meehan, Bernard | Article in Book | | 1986 |
| Treasures of the Library, Trinity College Dublin | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Royal Irish Academy for the Library of Trinity College Dublin | 1986 |
| Word and image in early modern German print | Robinson-Hammerstein, Helga | Article in Book | | 1986 |