O'Connor, Barbara (2009) Colleens and comely maidens: representing and performing Irish femininity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In: Flannery, Eóin and Griffin, Michael, (eds.) Ireland in focus: film, photography, and popular culture. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3203-0

Horgan, John, McNamara, Paul and O'Sullivan, John (2007) Irish print and broadcast media: The political, economic, journalistic and technological context. In: Horgan, John, O'Connor, Barbara and Sheehan, Helena, (eds.) Mapping Irish media: critical explorations. University College Dublin Press, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 978-1904558835

O'Brien, Mark (2007) Selling fear? The changing face of crime reporting in Ireland. In: Horgan, John, O'Connor, Barbara and Sheehan, Helena, (eds.) Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations. UCD Press, Dublin. ISBN 9781904558835

Brereton, Pat ORCID: 0000-0003-1681-7202 and O'Connor, Barbara (2007) Pleasure and pedagogy: the consumption of DVD add-ons among Irish teenagers. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 13 (2). ISSN 1748-7382

O'Connor, Barbara (2005) Sexing the nation: discourses of the dancing body in Ireland in the 1930s. Journal of Gender Studies, 14 (2). pp. 89-105. ISSN 0958-9236

O'Connor, Barbara (2004) Nation, gender und die dance hall. Eine irische fallstudie. In: Hipfl, Brigitte, Klaus, Elisabeth and Scheer, Uta, (eds.) Identitätsräume Nation, Körper und Geschlecht in den Medien. Eine Topografie. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 133-161. ISBN 978-3-89942-194-1

O'Connor, Barbara (2003) 'Come and daunce with me in Irlande': tourism, dance and globalisation. In: Cronin, Michael and O'Connor, Barbara, (eds.) Irish tourism: image, culture and identity. Channel View Publications, Clevedon, pp. 122-140. ISBN 978-1-873150-53-5

O'Connor, Barbara and Cronin, Michael (2000) From gombeen to gubeen: tourism, social class and cultural identity in Ireland 1949-1999. In: Ryan, Ray, (ed.) Writing in the Irish Republic: literature, culture and politics 1949-1999. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-73658-6

O'Connor, Barbara and Klaus, Elisabeth (2000) Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3 (3). pp. 369-387. ISSN 1460-356X

O'Connor, Barbara and Klaus, Elisabeth (2000) The meaning of pleasure and the pleasure of meaning: towards a definition of pleasure in reception analysis. In: Brosius, Hans-Bernd, (ed.) Kommunikation über Grenzen und Kulturen. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 27 . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz, pp. 411-428. ISBN 978-3-89669-280-1

O'Connor, Barbara (1997) Gender, class and television viewing: audience responses to the 'Ballroom of romance'. In: Kelly, Mary and O'Connor, Barbara, (eds.) Media audiences in Ireland: power and cultural identity. University College Dublin Press, Dublin. ISBN 9781900621090

O'Connor, Barbara (1996) Safe sets: women, dance and 'Communitas'. In: Thomas, Helen, (ed.) Dance in the city. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-17453-8

O'Connor, Barbara and Boyle, Raymond (1993) Dallas with balls: televized sport, soap opera and male and female pleasures. Leisure Studies, 12 (2). pp. 107-119. ISSN 0261-4367