- The Irish National Origin Legend, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History, 1
- 'Scél Tuáin meic Chairill' Ériu 35 (1984)
- 'Angelology in Saltair na Rann' Celtica 19 (1987)
- 'The ancestry of Fénius Farsaid' Celtica 21 (1990)
- 'On the interrelationships of some Cin Dromma Snechtai texts' Ériu 46 (1995)
- 'The three things required of a poet' Ériu 48 (1997)
- 'The hand and the angel: observations on the holy book in early Ireland and Northumbria' Temenos Academy Review 2 (Spring 1999)
- 'The location of the otherworld in the Irish tradition' in The Otherworld Voyage in early Irish literature (Four Courts Press, 2000)
- 'The Lough Foyle colloquy texts' Ériu 52 (2002)
Articles by Dr John Carey
