I'm Mrs. Finnigan, and I run Scoil Rince na hEasan, a small Irish dance school in eastern Idaho. I'd been formally teaching for 4 years, though the schools I'd taken from encouraged students to help each other out, so I got a lot of coaching experience in before actually teaching. I'd been doing Irish dance for 22 years. I'd taken a bit of ballet and baton prior to starting Irish dance. I don't remember much of my first dance teacher, who taught ballet and jazz, but my first Irish dance teacher was my teacher for about 13 years. She could be a bit of a drill seargeant, but she would literally go hundreds of miles out of her way to help her dancers. I still look up to her and occassionally call her for advice.