- ''The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche'', The Dublin Theatre Festival, 1968 . Published by Faber & Faber, Grove Press, 1968;
- ''The O'Neill'', The Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1969 . Published by The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co Meath, 1995 ;
- ''Sex and Shakespheare'', The Abbey, 1976 . Revised edition published by The Gallery Press, 1998 ;
- ''Talbot's Box'', The Peacock, 1973 . Published by The Gallery Press/Delaware, Proscenium Press, 1979 ;
- ''Double Cross'', The Abbey, 1986 . Published by Faber & Faber, 1986. Translated into French as ''Double jeu'' by Alexandra Poulain, 1996 ;
- ''The Madam MacAdam Travelling Theatre'', The Field Day Theatre Company, 1992 . Published by Methuen, 1992;
- ''The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde'', The Abbey, 1997 and Melbourne Festival 1998 . Published by The Gallery Press, 1997;
- ''The Shape of Metal'', The Peacock, 2003 . Published by The Gallery Press;
- ''My Scandalous Life'', 2004 , The Gallery Press.
- ''The Seagull'' (Chekov), The Royal Court, London, 1981 . Published by Eyre Methuen, 1981;
- ''Ghosts'' (Ibsen), The Peacock Theatre, Dublin, 1989 ;
- ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' (Pirandello) The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1996 .
- ''The Big Chapel'', Faber & Faber, 1971 . This novel was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, 1971 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
- ''Sean O'Casey: a Collection of Critical Essays'', Ed., Prentice Hall, 1975 , ISBN 013628941X
- ''Farmers'', Radio Telefis Eireann, 1978 ;
- ''Gold in the Streets'', 1993 ;
- ''The Black Joker''.
- ''Satirical elements in the prose of Thomas Nashe.'' Thesis (M.A.), University College Dublin, 1959 .
- ''Mervyn Wall: The demands of Satire.'', Studies: an Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science 47 (Spring 1958): 83-9.
- ''Groundwork for an Irish Theatre.'', Studies: an Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science 48 (Summer 1959): 192-8.
- ''Reading and Teaching the Novel.'', Studies: an Irish Quarterly Review of Letters, Philosophy and Science 56 (Winter 1967): 356-7.
- ''The Outsider.'', The Irish Times April 16, 1971.
- ''Synge and Modernism.'', in J. M. Synge Centenary Papers. 1971. Ed. Maurice Harmon. Dublin. Dolmen Press, 1972. 167-79.
- ''Synge the Dramatist.'', Mosaic 5.1 (1972): 9-16.
- ''Tellers of Tales.'', Times Literary Supplement. 17 March 1972: 301-02.
- ''The Writer’s Group in Galway.'', The Irish Times. April 8, 1976.
- ''Two Playwrights: Yeats and Beckett.'',, Myth and Reality in Irish Literature. Ed. Joseph Ronsley. Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977. 183-95.
- ''Anglo-Irish Playwrights and Comic Tradition.'', The Crane Bag 3.2 (1979): 19-27.
- ''The Moon and the Yellow River : Denis Johnson’s Shavianism.'', Denis Johnson : A Retrospective. Joseph Ronsley Ed. Irish Literary Studies 8. Gerrards Cross, Bucks : Colin Smythe, 1981 ; Totawa, New Jersey : Barnes and Noble, 1982. 49 - 58.
- ''The Irish Writer: Self and Society, 1950-1980.'', Literature and the Changing Ireland. Irish Literary Studies 9. Ed. Peter Connolly. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1982. 175-87.
- ''The Anglo-Irish.'', The Irish Times. December 7, 1983.
- ''Goldsmith the Playwright.'', Goldsmith, the Gentle Master. Ed. Sean Lucy. Cork: Cork University Press, 1984. 66-77.
- ''Brecht, Beckett, and Williams.'', Sagetrieb 3.2 (Fall 1984): 81-87.
- ''The Autobiographical Novel.'', The Genius of Irish Prose. Augustine Martin Ed. Thomas Davis Lecture Series. Dublin : Mercier Press in collaboration with Radio Telefis Eirann, 1985. 65-75.
- ''Ireland’s Pseudo-Englishman. '', Magill 11.5 January 1988 : 52-54.
- ''Reassessment. Thomas Kilroy on J.M. Synge : The Complex Creator of a Closed World.'', The Irish Times April 29, 1989.
- ''Secularized Ireland.'', Culture in Ireland : Division and Diversity ? Proceeding of the Cultures of Ireland Group Conference, 27 - 28 September 1991. Ed. Edna Longley. Belfast : Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, 1991. 135 - 141.
- ''A Generation of Playwrights.'', Irish University Review 22:1 (Spring 1992): 135-41.
- ''Theatrical Text and Literary Text.'', The Achievement of Brian Friel. Ed. Alan J. Peacock. Gerrard’s Cross: Bucks, Colin Smythe, 1993. 91-102.
- ''Some Irish Poems of Yeats,'', Eibei-Bungaku. Koka Women’s University, 11.3 (March 1994) : 41 - 53.
- ''The Literary Tradition of Irish Drama.'', Anglistentag 1994 graz : Proceedings. W. Rioehle, H. Keiper edc. Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1995. 7 - 15.
- ''John Bull’s Other Island : Shaw’s Irish Play. '', Banado Sho Kenkyu. Vol. 3, 1995, 11.1 1-20.
- ''Chekhov and the Irish.'', Program Note. Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya adapt. Frank McGuinness. Field Day Theatre Company. 1995.
- ''From Page to Stage.'', Irish Writers and Their Creative Process. Ed. Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarc’h. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996. 55-62.
- ''The Anglo-Irish Theatrical Imagination.'', Bullan, an Irish Studies journal 3.2 (Winter 1997/ Spring 1998), 5 - 12.
- ''Friendship.'', Irish University Review. 29:1 (Spring-Summer 1999): 83-9.
- ''The Seagull, an Adaptation.'', The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov. Ed. Vera Gottlieg and Paul Allain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 80-90.
- ''The Wildean Triangle.'', What Revels Are in Hand ? Assessment of Contemporary Drama in English in Honor of W. Lippke. B. Reitz, H. Stahl, eds.
- ''Contemporary Drama in English.'', (CDE Studies) 8 Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001. 47 - 55.
- ''Le théâtre de Thomas Kilroy.'', Thierry Dubost, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2001.
- ''Irish University Review 32:1 Special Issue Thomas Kilroy.'', Ed. Anthony Roche, (Spring/Summer 2002), 214 p.
- Guardian Fiction Prize, 1971;
- Heinemann Award for Literature;
- Aib Literary Prize;
- American-Irish Foundation Award for Literature;
- Rockefeller Foundation Residency;
- Kyoto University Foundation Fellowship;
- Prix Nikki Special Commendation;
- Lifetime Achievement, Irish Times / ESB Theatre Award, 2004.
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