Despite all his academic, community and media work, Dr Phoenix also found time to write and contribute to many books and booklets – as author, editor and contributor.
They were overwhelmingly about culture and history in the north of Ireland, and all were very well received.
In particular, his 1994 book Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940 was viewed as a ground-breaking study of an often-marginalised community. It was described as “magisterial” by former Irish News editor Tom Collins.
Likewise, his book on Feis na nGleann, about Gaelic culture and revival in the Glens of Antrim, which had been one of the last Gaelic-speaking areas of Ulster, incredibly well received, not least by the people of the Glens, Rathlin Island and the wider north Antrim area.
Amongst his literary offerings are the following:

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Books authored by Dr Éamon Phoenix
Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940

Dr Éamon Phoenix, 1994
Published by the Ulster Historical Foundation
Feis na nGleann: A Century of Gaelic Culture in the Antrim Glens

Dr Éamon Phoenix, 2005
Published by The Ulster Historical Foundation
Two Acres of Irish History: Study Through Time of Friar’s Bush and Belfast, 1570-1918

Dr Éamon Phoenix, 2000
Published by the Ulster Historical Foundation
The Legacy: Newry 1920-30

Dr Éamon Phoenix, Dr Cormac Moore, John Corrigan and Brian M. Walker, 2020
Nationalism in Northern Ireland from partition to the Belfast agreement: a political perspective; an academic perspective

PSeamus Mallon MP MLA, Dr Éamon Phoenix, 2003
Published by University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies.
Books edited by Dr Éamon Phoenix
A Century of Northern Life: The Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History 1890s-1990s

Edited by Dr Éamon Phoenix, 1995
Published by the Ulster Historical Foundation
Conflicts in the North of Ireland 1900-2000: Flashpoints and Fracture Zones

Edited by by Alan F. Parkinson, Dr Éamon Phoenix, 2005
Published by Four Courts Press Ltd