"Het keramische werk van Deirdre McLoughlin is sculpturaal te noemen. Zacht glooiende vormen die aanvankelijk vrij gesloten, maar de laatste jaren heel open van karakter zijn. Alsof de klei ter plaatse de lucht omsluit maar deze toch voldoende uitweg biedt."

Piet Augustijn , Deirdre McLoughlin; Keramiek, Juni 2007

"Balance and harmony, poise and contrast in each of the individual forms as well as in the interplay of the two vessels determine the first impression here. With a powerful formal language as well as proportion and fragility of the vessel types, they present themselves as sculptural objects, spatial bodies.
In addition, unspectactular and inconspicuous, there is the elegance of the material component, of the exquisite technique which also corresponds to the language of ideas: finest marble seems to have been used rather than clay, warmth and skin-like surfaces are to be found where unglazed surface defines spatial volume. Unpretentiously, nonsense is made of the ceramic discussion about vessel and sculpture".

Jury, Keramik Europas - Westerwaldpreis 2004.

"They [empty forms] are eloquently economical ceramic bands that almost magically conjure up a sense of human presence, loss and memory, through their use of subtle, ambiguous forms and positive and negative space. In a way they are hardly there at all, but they are amazingly strong works".

Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, March 12, 2003

"The sculptures of Deirdre McLoughlin do not overtly tell a story. She uses clay to make organic forms which she describes as biomorphic....there is, as in almost all her work, a subtle allusion to a living being.."
About her working method:
"She starts roughly as she goes backwards and forwards on a piece, turning the shape over, supporting it with clay and foam and keeping it smooth enough to see where she is going. Finally a shape comes 'alive' and the tension within it is realised by paring down and grinding back the surface until the flexibility with which she works is totally obliterated. In manipulating the clay she is searching for a form that surprises her and makes 'sense' - a sense which she does not immediately understand. Later, perhaps, she may recognise where a shape has come from as particular resonances with events in her life mingle with other possible meanings".

Betty Blandino, The figure in fired clay, 2001, London, A&C Black

"McLoughlin's significance is that she is the sculptor who found in ceramic, the medium to express herself, and very selectively chose and developed what she needed without any reference to existing conventions".

Michael Robinson, Swimming in the Pool, Ceramic Review, 1995

"McLoughlin's recent work is immensely skillful in all respects, but the less we notice the skill, the more interesting and moving it is....She is the real thing - a sculptor of some power".

David Brett, Circa 2 Magazine, Northern Ireland, 1994

"...she addresses a task that has confused artists for centuries, the business of transforming inert matter into something dynamic".

Henry Pim, Crafts Magazine, UK, 1994

2007

Germany: KeramikMagazinEuropa/CeramicsMagazineEuropa, Juni/Juli. Dynamisierte Materie, Das Oeuvre von Deirdre McLoughlin by Henry Pim.
Netherlands: Keramiek, Juni. Deirdre McLoughlin by Piet Augustijn.

2006

Ireland: The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Volume 2, 1989 - 1999, University of Limerick Press.
USA: Ceramics Monthly, March. Deirdre McLoughlin by Nesrin During.
Ireland: Clay to Sculpture: with reference to selected work of Deirdre McLoughlin and Fernando Casasempere by Anne Schnittger, thesis paper NCAD.

2005

Belgium: KLEI, november. Amlash. Modern design van 3000 jaar geleden by Frank Steyaert.
France: la revue de la CERAMIQUE et du VERRE, no. 140, Westerwaldpreis 2004, Otto Lindner.
Ireland: Irish Arts Review autumn, Not Just Pots, Irish Contemporary Ceramics in the NMI, Audrey Whitty
Ireland: CERAMICS IRELAND Spring/summer.

2003

Ireland: The Irish Times, March 12. Review of solo show in Dublin by Aidan Dunne.
UK: COILED POTTERY by Betty Blandino, London A&C Black revised colour edition.

2001

Ireland: Deirdre McLoughlin, A Pioneer in Irish Ceramic Sculpture, by Siobhan O Malley, thesis paper for HETAC Degree in Ceramic Design.
UK : THE FIGURE IN FIRED CLAY, by Betty Blandino, London A&C Black.