McDonald, R. (2007) The death of the critic. Continuum, London, pp224. ISBN 9780826492791

McDonald, R. (2007) 'What a male!': triangularity, desire and precedence in 'Before Play' and Play. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, 18. pp. 213-225. ISSN 0927-3131

McDonald, R. (2007) The Cambridge introduction to Samuel Beckett. Cambridge introductions to Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp150. ISBN 9780521838566

McDonald, R. (2005) Irish literature: tradition and modernity. In: Marcus, L. and Nicholls, P. (eds.) The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature. The New Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 653-667. ISBN 9780521820776

McDonald, R., ed. (2005) Irish writing since 1950. The Yearbook of English Studies, 35. MHRA, Leeds.

McDonald, R. (2005) Strategies of silence: colonial strains in short stories of the troubles. Yearbook of English Studies, 35. pp. 249-263. ISSN 2222-4289