[6] After completing his education, Doyle left Ireland to travel and live abroad for a number of years, with periods in Southeast Asia, South America, London, San Francisco and Sicily.
After quitting his teaching work to devote himself full-time to writing, he lived for periods in Paris, Berlin, Dublin, and Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford.
[10] A film adaptation directed by Eoin Macken and starring Dean-Charles Chapman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Finn Cole and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo was released in 2020.
This Is the Ritual, a collection of short fiction, was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury and Lilliput Press, and was a book of the year in the New Statesman[11] and Sunday Times.
[20] Doyle played the lead role – "the Hitcher" – in the feature film Hit the North, directed by Daniel Sayer.