Education

• Wexford in the Rare Oul’ Times (with John Hayes). Numerous Volumes - consisting primarily of early photographs of Co. Wexford. Volume 1 was published in 1985.
• A History of County Wexford. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2003. ISBN 0 7171 3461 X.
• Foster Son to a King. Dublin: Children’s Press, 1986.
• Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753—1798. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1991. ISBN 0 906602 18 1.
• The Greatest Hurling Decade. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1993.
• Diarmait: King of Leinster. Cork: Mercier Press, 2006. ISBN 9781856355056. This is a biography of Dermot Mac Murrough, an edition previously published as Dermot, King of Leinster, and the foreigners. Tralee, Co. Kerry: Anvil Books, 1973.
• "Young Farmer Seeks Wife". Dublin: Merlin Mercier, 2002. This was his first novel.

• Furlong, Nicholas. Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753—1798. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1991). ISBN 0 906602 18 1.
• Furlong, Nicholas. A History of County Wexford. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2003. ISBN 0 7171 3461 X.