| ‘Bog Queens’: The representation of women in the poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney P Coughlan Seamus Heaney, 185-205, 1997 | 136 | 1997 |
| Spenser and Ireland: An interdisciplinary perspective P Coughlan (No Title), 1989 | 79 | 1989 |
| Irish Literature and Feminism in Postmodernity P Coughlan Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) 10 (1/2), 175-202, 2004 | 62 | 2004 |
| Modernism and Ireland: the poetry of the 1930s P Coughlan, A Davis Cork University Press, 1995 | 52 | 1995 |
| ‘Some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England’: Ireland and Incivility in Spenser P Coughlan Spenser and Ireland: an interdisciplinary perspective, 46-74, 1989 | 50 | 1989 |
| ” Cheap and common animals”: The English anatomy of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century P Coughlan Cambridge University Press, 1990 | 37 | 1990 |
| Banville, the Feminine, and the Scenes of Eros P Coughlan Irish University Review 36 (1), 81-101, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| Women and desire in the work of Elizabeth Bowen P Coughlan Cork University Press, 1997 | 25 | 1997 |
| Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives P Coughlan, T O'Toole Peter Lang, 2008 | 22 | 2008 |
| The Local Context of Mutabilitie's Plea P Coughlan Irish University Review 26 (2), 320-341, 1996 | 21 | 1996 |
| 'The Whole Strange Growth': Heaney, Orpheus and Women P Coughlan The Irish Review (1986-), 25-45, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Kate O’Brien: Feminine beauty, feminist writing, and sexual role P Coughlan Cork University Press, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| Natural history and historical nature: the project for a natural history of Ireland P Coughlan Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 18 | 1994 |
| 10| Killing the Bats: O'Brien, Abjection, and the Question of Agency Patricia Coughlan P Coughlan Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives 520, 171, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| 'Without a Blink of Her Lovely Eye':" The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch" and Visionary Scepticism P Coughlan Irish University Review 35 (2), 349-373, 2005 | 16 | 2005 |
| ‘The Poetry is Another Pair of Sleeves’: Beckett, Ireland and Modernist Lyric Poetry P Coughlan Samuel Beckett, 65-82, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Paper Ghosts: Reading the Uncanny in Alice McDermott P Coughlan Éire-Ireland 47 (1), 123-146, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Rereading Peig Sayers: Women's autobiography, social history and narrative art P Coughlan Cork University Press, 2007 | 10 | 2007 |
| An Léiriú ar Shaol na mBan i dTéacsanna Dírbheathaisnéise Pheig Sayers P Coughlan Peig Sayers Scéalaí 1958, 20-57, 1873 | 10 | 1873 |
| Gender, Irish Modernism and the Poetry of Denis Devlin A Fogarty, P Coughlan, A Davis Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s, 209-31, 1995 | 9 | 1995 |
