HiAlan and I met at our local folk club about 3 years ago, then I joined a few bands he was in, and eventually we decided to do something ourselves.
Good luck with the PhD. you'll love Queen's, (I did my nurse training just round the corner in the City hospital. They get some great groups in the students union. That's were I first saw Stockton's Wing. Maybe you could start your own folk club.
Slainte,
alison