Donegal fiddler Liz Doherty was brought up in Buncrana, Inishowen, in Ireland's most northerly peninsula. Having been introduced to the fiddle by local maestro Dinny Mc Laughlin, she moved to Cork to study with Micheal O Suilleabhain, graduating from the Music Department of University College Cork in 1991. She was awarded a PhD in 1996 from the University of Limerick for her research on Cape Breton with a dissertation entitled The Paradox of the Periphery - Evolution of Cape Breton Fiddle Tradition c 1929-1995. Liz has lectured in traditional music in the Music Department of University College, Cork for the past seven years, and has been a guest lecturer at many institutions and events throughout Ireland, the U.K. and Canada, as well as having several publications to her credit. In 2001 she decided to resign from her full-time academic position to pursue her fiddle playing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.