Review of Explaining Northern Ireland. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1995; by Terry Eagleton in New Left Review

Review of The Asiatic Mode of Production. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1989; by Dr. Miomir Jaksic in Strana, 3-5 November, 1990.

Review Essay of The Asiatic Mode of Production. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1989; by Eero Loone in Studia Philosophica II (38): 88-95

Coverage in LSE News and Views 22(6) 5 June 2000. "Creating a Successful Federation," a review of the 5th Ernest Gellner Memorial Lecture "An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation?" given by Professor O'Leary.

Coverage in The Irish Post, May 13, 1995, on the release of Explaining Northern Ireland.

Coverage in An Phoblacht , 1 February, 2001, 24(4) of Professor O'Leary's criticism of the Mandelson Policing Bil and his lecture The Past, Present and Future of Policing and the Belfast Agreement, by Fern Lane.

Coverage of Brendan O'Leary as the prosecutor in the mock trial The People v. Margaret Thatcher, held at the New Theater at the London School of Economics and Political Science.