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| The Ballykissangelization of Ireland R Barton Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 20 (3), 413-426, 2000 | 30 | 2000 |
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| Screening Irish-America R Barton Irish Academic Press, 2009 | 19 | 2009 |
| Feisty colleens and faithful sons: gender in Irish cinema R Barton Cineaste 24 (2/3), 40-45, 1999 | 19 | 1999 |
| Music and sound in silent film: From the Nickelodeon to The Artist R Barton, S Trezise Routledge, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Kitsch as authenticity: Irish cinema and the challenge to romanticism R Barton Irish Studies Review 9 (2), 193-202, 2001 | 15 | 2001 |
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| Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen R Barton University Press of Kentucky, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| The Force Meets the Kittiwake: shooting Star Wars on Skellig Michael C Lundberg, V Ziakas The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism, 300-310, 2018 | 9* | 2018 |
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| Maureen O'Hara: Pirate Queen, Feminist Icon? R Barton Éire-Ireland 41 (1), 142-168, 2006 | 8 | 2006 |
| The ironic gaze: Roots tourism and Irish heritage cinema R Barton Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming History on Film, 163-179, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| A Female Voice in Irish Cinema: Women Filmmakers and the Creative Documentary R Barton New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua 21 (2), 17-32, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: continuum or conjuncture? R Barton, S Hadley, D Murphy Irish Studies Review 31 (2), 193-210, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
