Liz Doherty

Liz Doherty was born in Buncrana, the oldest daughter of four girls c. 1970. Though she grew up learning Irish traditional music and dancing, it wasn't until 1987 when she went to Glencolmcille Fiddle Week through Cairdeas na bhFeidleiri. She moved to Cork to attend University College Cork and graduated from there with a BMus in 1991 learning from Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. She took a role as Irish Traditional Music lecturer in UCC in 1994 where she taught until 2001. Doherty has been a visiting lecturer in Cape Breton University, Canada and Marshall University, West Virginia. Her 1996 University of Limerick PhD was on the fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.[3][4][5][6][7]

Doherty took time away from academia to record and tour. She was a founder member of Nomos and the group of fiddlers from the University College Cork's Music Department, Fiddlesticks. She recorded albums with a number of groups as well as solo albums before returning to academia and the University of Ulster.[5][4] She is a member of the Culture Ireland Expert Advisory Committee.[8] In 2013 Doherty was involved with the TG4 TV show Glaoch An Cheoil.[9]