Publications by Bill Rolston on murals in Northern Ireland
‘Politics, Painting and Popular Culture: the Political Wall Murals of Northern Ireland’, Media, Culture and Society 9(1), 1987: 5-28
‘Contemporary Political Wall Murals in Northern Ireland: “Drawing Support”’, Eire-Ireland 23(3), Fall 1988: 3-18.
Politics and Painting: Murals and Conflict in Northern Ireland, Cranbury, New Jersey, and London, Associated Universities Press 1991
Drawing Support: Murals in the North of Ireland, Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications 1992
Drawing Support 2: Murals of War and Peace, Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications 1995
‘Culture, Conflict and Murals: the Irish Case’, in Trisha Ziff (ed), Distant Relations: Chicano, Irish, Mexican Art and Critical Writing, Santa Monica, California, Smart Art Press 1995: 191-199
‘From King Billy to Cú Chulainn: Loyalist and Republican Murals, Past, Present and Future’, Eire/Ireland 32(4)-33(1-2), 1997/8: 6-28
‘Murals’, in D. Jones (ed) Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001: 1648-1650
Drawing Support 3: Murals and Transition in the North of Ireland, Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications 2003
‘Signs of the Times: Murals and Political Transformation in Northern Ireland’, in Rosa Gonzalez (ed), The Representation of Ireland/s: Images from Outside and from Within, Barcelona, Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, 2003: 27-43
‘Changing the Political Landscape: Murals and Transition in Northern Ireland’, Irish Studies Review 11(1), 2003: 3-16. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2638242
‘Writing on Wall for Old-Style of Loyalist Murals’, Irish Times, 28 July, 2003
‘Visions or nightmares? Murals and imagining the future in Northern Ireland’, in B. Cliff and E. Walshe (eds), Representing the Troubles: Texts and Images, 1970-2000, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004, pp. 117-128
‘The war of the walls: political murals in Northern Ireland’, Museum International, 223, September 2004, pp. 38-45. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/6459101/The_War_of_the_Walls_political_murals_in_Northern_Ireland
‘“The Brothers on the Walls”: International Solidarity and Irish Political Murals’, Journal of Black Studies 39(3)2009: 446-470. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2633955
‘Remember Free Derry’ in Jim Collins and Adrian Kerr, compilers, Free Derry Wall, Derry, Guildhall Press 2009: 8-10
‘Murals in Belfast: Time for a Change?’, Tinteán 12, 2010: 22-25
12 minute interview on murals in Northern Ireland in ‘Making and exploring Irish social lives’, Open University audio CD, 2010
‘“Trying to reach the future through the past”: Murals and memory in Northern Ireland’, Crime, Media, Culture 6(3) 2010: 285-307. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2635617
‘Murals (Northern Ireland)’, in John Downing (ed) Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, Los Angeles, Sage 2011: 344-346
‘Reimaging: Mural Painting and the State in Northern Ireland’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 15(5) 2012: 447-466
Drawing Support 4: Murals and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland. Belfast, Beyond the Pale Publications 2013
‘Prison as a Liberated Zone: the Murals of Long Kesh, Northern Ireland’, State Crime 2(2) 2013: 149-172; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2641570
‘Prison Murals in Northern Ireland: Art and Resistance’, Social Justice March 31, 2014; http://www.socialjusticejournal.org/?p=2173
Murals in Northern Ireland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kZUGvJX3zA
'Women on the Walls: Representations of Women in Political Murals in Northern Ireland', Crime Media Culture, 2017; Crime Media Culture; DOI: 10.1177/1741659017718037
‘Murals in Northern Ireland’, in Carol Kenna and Steve Lobb (eds) For Walls with Tongues: An Oral History of Street Murals 1966-1985, London, Greenwich Mural Workshop 2019: 80-84
‘The Troubles: Five Historical Back Stories’, GCRF Blog, 28 August 2019; https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/wps/2019/08/28/the-troubles-five-historical-back-stories/
‘“War comics without the humour” v. “Sistine Chapel-lite”’? History Ireland 27(5) 2019
‘Ambushed by Memory: Post-Conflict Popular Memorialisation in Northern Ireland’, International Journal of Transitional Justice 14(2) 2020: 320–339
‘Murale w Irlandii Północej a process pokojowy – historia I teraźniejszość’ (‘Murals in Ireland and the Peace Process – History and the Current Situation’) in Małgorzata Kaźmierczak and Mariusz Waras (eds) Wogna i pokój. Konflick społeczno-polityczny a sztuka ulicy (War and Peace. Socio-Political Conflict and Street Art). Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Akademii Sztuki w Szczecinie 2020
Drawing Support 5: Murals, Memory and Identity in the North of Ireland. Belfast, Beyond the Pale Books 2022