2024

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2024) John Bruton: An Appreciation. Studies Irish Review, 113 (Summer). ISSN 0039-3495

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2024) ‘I cannot give the name of the source to the court’: The Imprisonment of an Irish Political Journalist. Media History, 30 (4). pp. 506-518. ISSN 1368-8804

2023

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 and Wheatley, Dawn ORCID: 0000-0002-8751-4535 (2023) Irish journalists at work: values, roles & influences. Project Report. Dublin City University.

2020

Courtney, Michael, Breen, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-5857-9938, McGing, Claire, McMenamin, Iain ORCID: 0000-0002-1704-390X, O'Malley, Eoin ORCID: 0000-0002-9548-5666 and Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2020) Underrepresenting reality? Media coverage of women in politics and sport. Social Science Quarterly . ISSN 0038-4941

2017

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2017) ‘Insufficient critique’ – The Oireachtas Banking Inquiry and the media. Administration, 65 (2). pp. 89-107. ISSN 0001-8325

2015

Keating, Anthony (2015) Criminal libel, censorship and contempt of court: D.C. Boyd’s editorship of the Waterford Standard. In: Rafter, Kevin and O'Brien, Mark, (eds.) The State in Transition: Essays in Honour of John Horgan. New island, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 213-234. ISBN 978-1848404878

O'Brien, Mark (2015) ‘Facile ignorance’ and ‘wild wild women’: religion, journalism and social change in Ireland 1961–1979. In: Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 and O'Brien, Mark, (eds.) The State in Transition: Essays in Honour of John Horgan. New island, Dublin, pp. 3-27. ISBN 9781848404878

O'Brien, Mark and Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2015) Commerce and the Church: the factors that shaped New Journalism in the Irish Independent. Media History, 21 (3). pp. 252-264. ISSN 1368-8804

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2015) Holding to account: some reflections on civil service reform. Administration, 63 (1). pp. 27-37. ISSN 0001-8325

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2015) Never justify. Never explain’: some thoughts on Irish political memoirs. In: Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 and O'Brien, Mark, (eds.) The State in Transition: Essays in Honour of John Horgan. New Island, Dublin, pp. 284-310. ISBN 978-1848404878

2014

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2014) ‘There now follows...' The role of the party political broadcast and the 2007 peace broadcast. In: O'Brien, Mark and Ó Beacháin, Donnacha, (eds.) Political Communications in Ireland: Politics, Media and the Public. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781781385999

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2014) A great deal of it cannot be printed’ - W. T. Stead and E. J. Dillon. In: Steele, Karen and de Nie, Michael, (eds.) Ireland and the New Journalism. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature . Palgrave, London, pp. 141-158. ISBN 978-1-137-42870-7

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2014) The passion of particularity’: Magill magazine, 1977-1990. In: O'Brien, Mark and Larkin, Felix M., (eds.) Periodicals and journalism in twentieth century Ireland. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 219-234. ISBN 978-1-84682-524-8

2013

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2013) The Politics of a ‘non-political’ office, 1973-90. In: Coakley, John and Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223, (eds.) The Irish presidency: power, ceremony and politics. Irish Academic Press, Dublin, pp. 102-125. ISBN 9780716532033

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2013) Evil literature: why the News of the World was banned in Ireland. Media History, 19 (4). pp. 408-420. ISSN 1368-8804

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2013) Public interest and individual taste in disclosing an Irish minister’s illness. In: Petley, Julian ORCID: 0000-0002-6237-8127, (ed.) Media and Public Shaming: Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure. I.B. Tauris/Reuters Institute Oxford, London, pp. 165-178. ISBN 9781780765877

2012

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2012) Political journalism. In: Turner, Barry and Orange, Richard, (eds.) Specialist Journalism. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), London, pp. 30-38. ISBN 9780415582858

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2012) A tale of “womanly intuition” - Hector Legge at the Sunday Independent, 1940-70. In: O'Brien, Mark ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 and Rafter, Kevin, (eds.) Independent Newspapers: A History. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 119-132. ISBN 978-1-84682-360-2

O'Brien, Mark (2012) Independent Newspapers and Irish society, 1973-98. In: O'Brien, Mark and Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223, (eds.) Independent Newspapers: A History. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 170-181. ISBN 978-1-84682-360-2

Horgan, John (2012) The changing of the guard at Middle Abbey Street, 1961-73. In: O'Brien, Mark and Rafter, Kevin, (eds.) Independent Newspapers: A History. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 133-146. ISBN 978-1-84682-360-2

O'Brien, Mark (2012) ‘The best interests of the nation’: Frank Geary, the Irish Independent and the Spanish civil war. In: O'Brien, Mark and Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223, (eds.) Independent Newspapers: A History. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 81-93. ISBN 978-1-84682-360-2

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2012) To the left of Labour: The Workers’ Party and Democratic Left. In: Weeks, Liam and Clark, Alistair, (eds.) Radical or redundant? Minor Parties in Irish political life. The History Press, Dublin, pp. 173-187. ISBN 978-1845887445

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2012) Labour and the media: the promise of socialism, negative campaigning and The Irish Times. In: Daly, Paul, O'Brien, Rónán and Rouse, Paul, (eds.) Making the Difference? The Irish Labour Party, 1912-2012. Collins Press, Cork, Ireland, pp. 125-138. ISBN 978-1848891425

O'Malley, Eoin, Brandenburg, Heinz, Flynn, Roddy, McMenamin, Iain and Rafter, Kevin (2012) Crisis elections and the primacy of policy: explaining media framing of election coverage. Working Papers in International Studies. (Paper No. 2012-06). Dublin City University.

McMenamin, Iain, Flynn, Roddy, O'Malley, Eoin and Rafter, Kevin (2012) Explaining election frames: A content analysis of twelve newspapers in the 2011 Irish general election. Working Papers in International Studies Series. (Paper No. 3). Dublin City University, Dublin.

2011

O'Brien, Mark (2011) Journalism in Ireland: the evolution of a discipline. In: Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223, (ed.) Irish Journalism Before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 9-21. ISBN 9780719084522

Horgan, John (2011) The Irishness of Francis McCullagh. In: Rafter, Kevin, (ed.) Irish Journalism Before Independence. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 978-1-8477-9503-8

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2011) The Power to censor: the Catholic church, the media and child sexual abuse. Policy Report. Amnesty International, Dublin. ISBN 978-0-9555600-4-0

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2011) Emile Joseph Dillon: from our special correspondent. In: Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223, (ed.) Irish Journalism Before Independence: More a disease than a profession. Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, pp. 91-105. ISBN 9780719094941

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2011) Bombers and mavericks: Magill magazine’s coverage of Northern Ireland, 1977-90. Media History, 17 (1). pp. 61-75. ISSN 1368-8804

Rafter, Kevin ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-5223 (2011) Priests and peace: the role of Redemptorist Order in the Northern Ireland peace process. Etudes Irlandaises, 28 (1). pp. 159-176. ISSN 1622-342X