• Alan Fletcher, Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland (Toronto & Cork 2000).
• W. S. Clark, The Early Irish Stage: The Beginnings to 1720 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955).
• La Tourette Stockwell, Dublin Theatres and Theatre Custom 1637-1820 (Kingsport, Tenn.: 1938).
• Christopher Wheatley, Beneath Iërne’s Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (South Bend 1999).
• Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (Tralee 1946).
• Christopher Fitz-Simon, Irish Theatre (London 1983).
• Sandra Burner, James Shirley: A Study of Literary Coteries in Seventeenth Century England (NY 1988).
• Catherine M. Shaw, ‘Landgartha and the Irish Dilemma’, in Éire-Ireland, 13, 1 (Winter 1978), pp.26-39.
• Patricia Coughlan, ‘”Enter Revenge”, Henry Burkhead and Cola’s Furie’, in Theatre Research International, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp.1-17.
• Catherine Cole Mambretti, ‘Orinda on the Restoration Stage’, inComparative Literature, 37, 3 (Summer 1985), pp.233-51.
• Nancy Klein, ‘Regicide and Reparation: The Autobiographical Drama of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery’, in English Literary Review [ELR], 21, 2 (Spring 1991), pp.257-82
• W. S. Clark, ed., The Dramatic Works of Roger Boyle, 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass. 1937).

• James J. O’Neill, A Bibliographical Account of Irish Theatrical Literature (Dublin 1920).
• William R. Chetwood, A General History of the Stage (London 1974).
• Benjamin Victor, The History of the Theatres of London and Dublin, 2 vols. (London 1761).
• Robert Hitchcock, Historical View of the Irish Stage, 2 vols. (Dublin 1788-94).
• W. S. Clark, The Irish Stage in the Country Towns 1720-1800 (Oxford 1965).
• Gladys L. H. Clark & John C. Greene, The Dublin Stage 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments and Afterpieces (Bethlehem, London & Toronto 1993).
• Esther K. Sheldon, Thomas Sheridan of Smock Alley (Princeton 1967).
• Linzi Simpson, Smock Alley Theatre: The Evolution of a Building (Dublin 1996)
• Shirley Strum Kenny, ed., The Works of George Farquhar, 2 vols. (Oxford 1988).
• Cecil Price, ed., The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Oxford 1973).
• George Taylor, ed., Plays of Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy (Cambridge 1984).
• J. O. Bartley, ed., Four Plays by Charles Macklin (Hamden, Conn. 1968).
• James Thomas Kirkham, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, 2 vols. (London 1799).
• Fintan O’Toole, A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (London 1997).
• Patrick Thomas, ed., The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, 3 vols. (Stump Cross 1990-93).
• Katherine Philips, Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda. To which is Added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey and Horace, Tragedies (London 1667).
• Mary O’Brien, The Fallen Patriot: A Comedy in Five Acts (Dublin 1794).

19th Century.

• T. J. Walsh, Opera in Dublin 1798-1820: Frederick Jones and the Crow Street Theatre (Oxford 1993).
• Articles by J. W. Calcraft in Dublin University Magazine.
• Martin Meisel, Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theatre (NY 1963).
• Stephen Watt, Joyce, O’Casey, and the Irish Popular Theatre (Syracuse 1991).
• Richard Fawkes, Dion Boucicault (London, NY & Melbourne 1979).
• Kerry Powell, Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge 1990).
• Cheryl Herr, ed., For the Land They Loved: Irish Political Melodramas 1890-1925 (Syracuse UP 1991) [plays of J. W. Whitbread and P. J. Bourke].
• Michael R. Booth, Theatre in the Victorian Age (Cambridge 1991).
• Joseph Holloway, Souvenirs of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of the Gaiety Theatre, 27th November 1871 (Dublin 1896)
• Maire Ni Shuibhlaigh, The Splendid Years (Dublin 1955).
• The History of the Theatre Royal, Dublin, From its Foundation in 1821 to the Present Time (Dublin 1870).
• Dion Boucicault, ‘The Future of American Drama’, in The Arena, 12 (Nov. 1890), pp.647-78.
• John P. Harrington, ‘”Rude Involvement”: Boucicault, Dramatic Tradition and Contemporary Politics’, in Éire-Ireland, 30, 2 (Summer 1995), pp.89-103
• Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn: Prompt Book, in Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library [TS 3121.25; provenance unknown].
• Dion Boucicault, Arrah-na-Pogue, or the Wicklow Wedding, Prompt Book, Theatre Royal, Dublin (June 1864), in Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library [TS 3055.45.
• James Sheridan Knowles, Brian Boroimhe: The King of Munster: Prompt Book, Lafayette Theatre, NY (17 March 1870), in Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library [TS 2084.25].
• Works of Hubert O’Grady, ed. by Stephen Watt, in A Journal of Irish Literature, 13, 1 & 2 (Jan.-May 1984).
• John P. Harrington, The Irish Play and the New York Stage 1874-1966 (Lexington 1997).
• Philip B. Ryan, The Last Theatres of Dublin (Westbury 1998).
• Seamus de Burca, The Queen’s Royal Theatre, Dublin 1829-1969 (Dublin 1983).

• K. P. S. Jochum, W. B. Yeats: A Classified Bibliography of Criticism, 2nd edn. (Urbana & Chicago 1990)
• Bernice Schrank, Sean O’Casey: Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, Conn., 1996)
• Joseph Holloway’s diaries, in NLI [25,000,000 words from the late 1890s until his death in 1944].
• Robert Hogan, The Modern Irish Drama: A Documentary History, 6 vols.: Hogan and James Kilroy, The Irish Literary Theatre 1899-1901 (Dublin 1975); Hogan, Laying the Foundations 1902-1904 (Dublin 1976); Hogan, The Years of Synge 1905-1909 (Dublin 1978); Hogan, with Daniel J. Poteet, The Rise of the Realists 1910-1915 (Dublin 1979); Hogan, with Richard Burnham, The Art of the Amateur 1916-1920 (Dublin 1984) and Hogan, The Years of O’Casey 1921-1926 (Dublin 1992).
• Robert Hogan, ed., Lost Plays of the Irish Renaissance (Dixon, California 1970)
• Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I, ed. John Kelly and Eric Domville (Oxford 1986); Vol. 2, ed. Warwick Gould, John Kelly and Deirdre Toomey (Oxford 1997); Vol. 3, ed. John Kelly and Ronald Suchard [sic] (Oxford 1994)
• The Complete Letters of J. M. Synge, ed. Ann Saddlemyer 2 vols. (Oxford 1983-84).
• The Letters of Sean O’Casey, ed. David Krause, 4 vols. (Washington 1975-92).
• Lady Gregory: The Coole Edition; Our Irish Theatre, Seventy Years and Two Volumes of Journals (Gerrards Cross 1972 1974 1978 and 1987).
• Ann Saddlemyer, ed., Theatre Business: The Correspondence of the First Abbey Theatre Directors (Gerrards Cross 1982).
• Peter Kavanagh’s The Story of the Abbey Theatre (NY 1950).
• Lennox Robinson, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre: A History 1899-1951 (London 1951).
• Hugh Hunt, The Abbey: Ireland’s National Theatre 1904-1979 (Dublin 1979).
• Robert Welch, The Abbey Theatre 1899-1999: Form and Pressure (Oxford 1999) [draws on the unpub. plays in NLI and Abbey Archive].
• Adrian Frazier, Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1990).
• William J. Feeney, Drama in Hardwicke Street: A History of the Irish Theatre Company (Madison 1984).
• Brenna Katz Clarke & Harold Ferrar, The Dublin Drama League 1918-1941 (Dublin 1979)
• Robert Hogan, After the Irish Renaissance (London 1968).
• Michael J. O’Neill, The Abbey at the Queen’s (Nepean, Ontario 1999) [full cast lists 1951-66].
• Christopher Murray, ed., “Teresa Deevey: Special Issue”, Irish University Review (Spring/Summer 1995),.
• Christopher Murray, Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror Up to Nation (Manchester 1997).
• Sam Hanna Bell, The Theatre in Ulster (Dublin 1972) [draws on sources in the Linenhall Theatre Archive, Belfast].
• Ophelia Byrne, The Stage in U1ster from the Eighteenth Century (Belfast 1997).
• P. J. Murphy, Critique of Beckett Criticism (Columbia, SC 1994).
• Ruby Cohn, Just Play: Beckett’s Theatre (Princeton, NJ 1980).
• Anna McMullan, Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett’s Later Drama (London & NY 1993). Vivian Mercier, Beckett/Beckett (Oxford 1977).
• John P. Harrington, The Irish Beckett (Syracuse 1991).
• Anthony Roche, Contemporary Irish Drama: From Beckett to McGuinness (Dublin 194).
• Christopher Murray, ‘Beckett Productions in Ireland: A Survey’, in Irish University Review, 14, 1 (Spring 1984), pp.103-25.
• Alan Simpson, Beckett and Behan and a Theatre in Dublin (London 1978).
• Caroline Swift, Stage by Stage (Dublin 1985) [history of the Pike Theatre, Dublin].
• Conor O’Malley, A Poet’s Theatre (Dublin 1988) [history of the Lyric Th., Belfast].
• Marilyn Richtarik, Acting Between the Lines: Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-84 (Oxford 1995).
• Jerome Hynes, ed., Druid: The First Ten Years (Galway 1985).
• Christopher Fitz-Simon., The Boys (London 1994) [double life of Edwards and Mac Liammoir].
• Peter Luke, ed., Enter Certain Players (Dublin 1978) [productions up to 1978]
• Gate early material archived at Northwestern University in Illinois.
• Christopher Murray & Martin Drury, ‘The Theatre System of Ireland’ in Theatre Worlds in Motion: Structures, Politics and Developments in the Countries of Western Europe, ed. H. Van Maarien & S. E. Wilmer (Amsterdam & Atlanta 1998).
• Declan Gorman, ed., Dialogues 1996: Proceedings of the Arts Council Theatre Review Consultations (Dublin 1996).
• Eberhard Bort, ed., State of Play: Irish Theatre in the ‘Nineties (Trier 1996).
• Eamonn Jordan, ed., Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Drama (Dublin, 2000).
• Loughlin Deegan, ed., The Irish Theatre Handbook (Dublin 1998 & edns.) [online database of new work from 1951 due in 2002].
• Bernice Schrank and William M. Demastes, eds., Irish Playwrights 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, Conn. 1997).
• Nicholas Grene, The Politics of Irish Drama (Cambridge, 2000).
• Lionel Pilkington, National Theatres in Irish Politics (London, 2001).
• Shaun Richards, The Drama of Ireland: An Infinite Rehearsal (London, 2001).
• D. E. S. Maxwell, Modern Irish Drama 1891-1980 (Cambridge 1984).
• Fintan O’Toole, Tom Murphy: The Politics of Magic [2nd edn.] (Dublin & London 1994).
• Eamonn Jordan, The Feast of Famine: The Plays of Frank McGuinness (Bern & NY 1997).
• Richard Pine, Brian Friel and Ireland’s Drama (London 1990).
• Brian Friel, Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999, ed. Christopher Murray (London and New York 1999)
• Methuen collections of Sebastian Barry, Marina Carr, Declan Hughes Martin McDonagh, and Tom Murphy.
• Nick Hern Books, collections incl. Conor McPherson and Gary Mitchell, et al.
• Peggy Butcher, ‘Drama Publishing’, in Irish Review, 22 (Summer 1998), pp.9-15.