{"id":570,"date":"2017-09-22T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/?p=570"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:08:03","slug":"sir-iain-noble-memorial-lecture-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/2017\/09\/sir-iain-noble-memorial-lecture-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture and Young Person of the Year Award 2017<\/h1>\n

11\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sixth Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord Minginish, Roddy John MacLeod, on Tuesday 14 November at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig where he gave a detailed and fascinating talk on crofting legislation, and made particular reference to the work of Fearann Eilean Iarmain.<\/p>\n

The annual lecture was started by Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig and Urras an Eilein (Skye Gaelic Trust) \u2013 two organisations which Sir Iain helped to establish and with which he enjoyed enduring ties during his lifetime \u2013 to honour the work and achievements of Sir Iain, especially with regard to the College, the island and the Gaelic language.<\/p>\n

Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig Principal, Prof Boyd Robertson said:\u00a0 \u201cRoddy John\u2019s lecture was, as anticipated, one of substance and insight.\u00a0 He charted with great clarity the various developments in land tenure and legislation in the past century and raised a number of questions about the Gael\u2019s stewardship of the land and relationship to crofting\u201d.<\/p>\n

On delivering the lecture, Lord Minginish, Roddy John MacLeod, said:\u00a0 \u201cIt was a great honour to be asked to deliver the Iain Noble Memorial Lecture.\u00a0 As Iain was himself a landlord of a crofting estate, I thought it appropriate to talk about the history of crofting legislation, especially at a time when there are proposals for change.\u00a0 As I said in my lecture, we sadly cannot know what changes Iain himself would wish to make.\u00a0 One thing for sure, though, they would have been original and imaginative.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the evening\u2019s proceedings, the second \u201cSkye\u2019s Young Gaelic Person of the Year\u201d award was presented and this year went to Martin MacLure from Aird in South Skye for his contribution to the use and promotion of Gaelic.\u00a0 Martin is the College\u2019s Short Courses Manager and this is the second time the award has gone to a member of staff at SMO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

On receiving the award Martin commented:\u00a0 \u201cIt is great that Urras an Eilein are supporting young people from the Island who are interested in and working in Gaelic and I hope, in the future, that this will encourage other young Gaelic speakers to maintain the language.\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted that I was nominated for such an award and didn\u2019t expect it at all.\u201d<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture and Young Person of the Year Award 2017 11\/2017 The sixth Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord Minginish, Roddy John MacLeod, on Tuesday 14 November at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig where he gave a detailed and fascinating talk on crofting legislation, and made particular reference to the work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","builder_content":"\"Sir\n\"Sir\n

Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture and Young Person of the Year Award 2017<\/h1>

11\/2017<\/strong><\/p>

The sixth Sir Iain Noble Memorial Lecture was delivered by Lord Minginish, Roddy John MacLeod, on Tuesday 14 November at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig where he gave a detailed and fascinating talk on crofting legislation, and made particular reference to the work of Fearann Eilean Iarmain.<\/p>

The annual lecture was started by Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig and Urras an Eilein (Skye Gaelic Trust) \u2013 two organisations which Sir Iain helped to establish and with which he enjoyed enduring ties during his lifetime \u2013 to honour the work and achievements of Sir Iain, especially with regard to the College, the island and the Gaelic language.<\/p>

Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig Principal, Prof Boyd Robertson said:\u00a0 \u201cRoddy John\u2019s lecture was, as anticipated, one of substance and insight.\u00a0 He charted with great clarity the various developments in land tenure and legislation in the past century and raised a number of questions about the Gael\u2019s stewardship of the land and relationship to crofting\u201d.<\/p>

On delivering the lecture, Lord Minginish, Roddy John MacLeod, said:\u00a0 \u201cIt was a great honour to be asked to deliver the Iain Noble Memorial Lecture.\u00a0 As Iain was himself a landlord of a crofting estate, I thought it appropriate to talk about the history of crofting legislation, especially at a time when there are proposals for change.\u00a0 As I said in my lecture, we sadly cannot know what changes Iain himself would wish to make.\u00a0 One thing for sure, though, they would have been original and imaginative.\u201d<\/p>

As part of the evening\u2019s proceedings, the second \u201cSkye\u2019s Young Gaelic Person of the Year\u201d award was presented and this year went to Martin MacLure from Aird in South Skye for his contribution to the use and promotion of Gaelic.\u00a0 Martin is the College\u2019s Short Courses Manager and this is the second time the award has gone to a member of staff at SMO.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

On receiving the award Martin commented:\u00a0 \u201cIt is great that Urras an Eilein are supporting young people from the Island who are interested in and working in Gaelic and I hope, in the future, that this will encourage other young Gaelic speakers to maintain the language.\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted that I was nominated for such an award and didn\u2019t expect it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/use><\/svg><\/em> \u00d2raid\/Speech 2017 <\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urras-an-eilein.scot\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}