Mark Doyle was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK, where he developed a lifelong allergy to the state of Texas. He attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans and spent his junior year in Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin. It was here that the history bug bit him: a research project on agrarian violence in nineteenth-century Ireland took him to Dublin's National Archives, where he discovered the thrill of holding and deciphering old police reports and crumbling letters. Since then he has lived in Boston (where he got his PhD), Belfast, Dublin (again), Philadelphia, and Northampton, MA. He now lives in Nashville with his wife, two daughters, and a cat named Chesterfield.

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Books

The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached. London: Reaktion, 2020.

Editor, The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Burbank: ABC-CLIO, 2018.

Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Fighting like the Devil for the Sake of God: Protestants, Catholics, and the Origins of Violence in Victorian Belfast. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.

Articles

“The Perils of Impartiality: policing communal violence in Victorian India,” in Policing Empires, ed. Amandine Lauro, Emmanuel Blanchard, and Marieke Bloembergen. Berne: Peter Lang, 2017. 

“Those the empire washed ashore: uncovering Ireland’s multiracial past” in Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion, ed. Michael de Nie, Timothy McMahon, and Paul Townend. London: Palgrave, 2017.

“The Snake’s Pass and the Irish Question,” in Bram Stoker, The Snake’s Pass: critical edition, ed. Lisabeth Buchelt. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015.

“Martyrs of Liberty: open-air preaching and popular violence in Victorian Britain and Ireland,” in Faith, War, and Violence: Religion and Public Life, vol. 39, ed. Gabriel Ricci. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2014.

“‹‹ Tirer avec effet immediat ››: la répression des émeutes en Irelande et aux Indes à l’époque coloniale,” [“‘Firing Should be at Once Effective’: riot control in colonial Ireland and South Asia,” in Polices d’Empires: XVIII ͤ - XIX ͤ siècles, ed. Vincent Denis and Catherine Denis. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

“Massacre by the Book: Amritsar and the rules of public-order policing in Britain and India,” Britain and the World 4, 2 (September 2011), p. 247-68.

“The Sepoys of the Pound and Sandy Row: empire and identity in mid-Victorian Belfast,” Journal of Urban History 36, 6 (November 2010), p. 849-67.

“Visible Differences: the 1859 Revival and communal identity in Belfast,” in Irish Protestant Identities, ed. Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal, and Jon Tonge. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, p. 141-54.

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