| "Done to death by father or relatives" : Irish families and infanticide cases, 1922–1950 | Rattigan, Clíona | Article in Journal | | 2008 |
| 'Filium Illegitium': Illegitimacy data for the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore | Purcall, Clíona | Article in Journal | | 2019 |
| 'Found in a "dying" condition' : nurse-children in Ireland, 1872-1952 | Buckley, Sarah-Anne | Article in Book | Institute of Historical Research | 2012 |
| 'Immorality' in the workhouse | Murphy, Hilary | Article in Journal | | 1996 |
| 'She said she was in the family way' : pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland | | Monograph or Collective Volume | Institute of Historical Research | 2012 |
| 'The luckless waifs and strays of humanity' : Irish and Jewish immigrant unwed mothers in London, 1870-1939 | Marks, Lara Vivienne | Article in Journal | | 1992 |
| A sexual revolution in the West of Ireland? | Gray, PaulKennedy, Liam, 1946- | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| A social history of illegitimacy from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century | Gray, William Paul | Thesis | | 2000 |
| A tragedy from 1871 : a study of stigma, poverty and alienation | Silverman, Marilyn | Article in Journal | | 1994 |
| Aspects of sexual behaviour in nineteenth-century Scotland | Smout, Thomas Christopher | Article in Book | | 1980 |
| Bastard prince : Henry VIII's lost son | Murphy, Beverley A. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Sutton | 2001 |
| Bastardy - the stain of illegitimacy in Medieval Ireland | Hickey, Cormac T. | Article in Journal | | 2020 |
| Bastardy and the Great Famine : Ireland 1845-50 | Kennedy, Liam, 1946- | Article in Book | | 2000 |
| Bastardy and the Great Famine : Ireland, 1845-1850 | Kennedy, Liam, 1946- | Article in Journal | | 1999 |
| Cribbed, contained and confined? The care of children under the Irish poor law, 1850-1920 | Crossman, Virginia | Article in Book | | 2014 |
| Do penance or perish? A study of the Magdalen asylums in Ireland | Finnegan, Frances | Monograph or Collective Volume | Congrave | 2001 |
| Famine, illegitimacy, and the workhouse in western Ireland : Kilrush county Clare | Gray, PaulKennedy, Liam, 1946- | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| Famine, illegitimacy, and the workhouse in western Ireland : Kilrush, County Clare | Gary, PaulKennedy, Liam, 1946- | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| In the family way and away from the family : examining the evidence in Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1920s-40s | Redmond, Jennifer | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Interrogating the charge of Concealment of Birth in Nineteenth Century Irish courts | Farrell, Elaine | Article in Book | | 2017 |
| Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment | Smith, James M., 1966- | Monograph or Collective Volume | University of Notre Dame Press | 2007 |
| Irish peasant society | Connell, Kenneth Hugh | Monograph or Collective Volume | Clarendon Press | 1968 |
| Irish peasant society : four historical essays | Connell, Kenneth Hugh | Monograph or Collective Volume | Irish Academic Press | 1996 |
| Patrick Kavanagh and his Tullamore connection : a lost genealogy | Agnew, Una | Article in Journal | | 2015 |
| Patterns of illegitimacy in twentieth-century Northern Ireland | Gray, William Paul | Thesis | | 1989 |
| Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland | Maguire, Moira J. | Monograph or Collective Volume | Manchester University Press | 2009 |
| Registered 'unknown' infant fatalities in Ireland, 1916-32: gender and power | Breathnach, CiaraO'Halpin, Eunan | Article in Journal | | 2012 |
| Shaped by silence : stories from the inmates of the Good Shepherd laundries and reformatories | Croll, Rie | Monograph or Collective Volume | ISER Books | 2019 |
| Social structures of the Irish church : a new source in papal penitentiary dispensations for illegitimacy | Haren, Michael J. | Article in Book | | 1994 |
| The early years of the NSPCC in Ireland | Luddy, Maria | Article in Book | | 2014 |
| The fate of the 'Illegitimate' child: An analysis of Irish Social Policy in the period: 1750-1952 | McCoughren, SimonePowell, Fred | Article in Book | | 2017 |
| The hidden history of the PFIs : the repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s | Garrett, Paul Michael | Article in Journal | | 2000 |
| The light in the window | Goulding, Jane | Monograph or Collective Volume | Poolbeg | 1998 |
| What happened to the foundling child? | Mortimer, Sandra | Article in Journal | | 2016 |