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87-604: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig ( [ˌs̪ɔɫ̪ ˌmoɾ ˈɔs̪t̪ɪkʲ] ; lit.   ' Great Barn of Ostaig ' ) is a public higher education college situated in the Sleat peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye , Scotland with an associate campus at Bowmore on the island of Islay . Sabhal Mòr is an independent Academic Partner in the federal University of the Highlands and Islands . Its sole medium of instruction on degree courses

174-466: A lord-lieutenant . As part of the 1975 reforms, new lieutenancy areas were established instead. Inverness-shire was split between three lieutenancy areas: The last Lord Lieutenant of the county, Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel , became Lord Lieutenant of the new Inverness lieutenancy area. Further local government reforms in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 saw

261-552: A registration county . In 1998 the Western Isles Council formally changed the English language version of the area's name from Western Isles to Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Scots Gaelic for 'Western Isles'), to be used in both English and Gaelic contexts. Inverness-shire is Scotland's largest historic county by land area. At the 1921 census it was reported to have an area of 4,211 square miles (10,910 km ). Of

348-412: A Gaelic playgroup, night classes for Gaelic learners, and events for Gaelic-speaking schoolchildren. The Scottish Arts Council sponsored a Gaelic writer-in-residence, Catrìona Montgomery from Roag near Dunvegan . In November 1974 the charitable Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation offered Sabhal Mòr a three-year grant towards the cost of a full-time director. Farquhar MacLennan, a teacher from Raasay accepted

435-627: A beach as the runway. There was an Inverness-shire constituency of the Parliament of Great Britain ( Westminster ) from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918. The constituency represented, nominally, the county of Inverness minus the parliamentary burgh of Inverness , which was represented as a component of the Inverness District of Burghs constituency. In 1918

522-553: A drama artist-in-residence. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig offers the following degrees and diplomas: Distance Learning: Undergraduate: Postgraduate: In addition, research staff at the college are presently supervising PhD theses concerning Gaelic language, culture, history, and sociolinguistics. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig also offers a growing number of short courses, well-established programmes in Gaelic language and music as well as more recent ones in history, culture, and crofting. Most are based at

609-579: A further BA course, Gàidhlig agus na Meadhanan (Gaelic and Media Studies), was introduced. Another BA (Hons) course, Gàidhlig agus Ceòl Traidiseanta (Gaelic and Traditional Music), began in 2006, while the following year the teacher-training MA (Hons) course in Gàidhlig agus Foghlam (Gaelic and Education) began, in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen . These were complemented by highly successful distance learning language courses: from 2000,

696-572: A glazed drum and lantern viewing platform. Designed by George Mulvagh of Gillespie Architects, the buildings were awarded a Regeneration of Scotland architectural award by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland . Adjoining them is the later Ionad Fàs (2008), the centre for creative and cultural industries, again designed by Gillespie Architects. The college's associate campus Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle, situated beside Bowmore on

783-469: A lecturer in biochemistry at the University of Dundee . Barr was to take a year's sabbatical, from June 1973 to September 1974, as the college's first fear-stiùiridh or director. A two-week summer course for Gaelic learners, attended by 22 students from Scotland, Britain, and further afield, was held in September 1973 in association with An Comunn Gàidhealach . Other activities included a lecture series,

870-437: A massive increase in summer courses and short courses. The introduction in 1994 of a new HNC in Gaelic and Communications, a diploma designed to boost the supply of teachers to the growing number of Gaelic medium units in primary schools across the country, further underlined the shift in the college's position in response to the increasing need for qualified Gaelic speakers in the media and education throughout Scotland. During

957-431: A public is a population of individuals in association with civic affairs, or affairs of office or state. In social psychology, marketing, and public relations, a public has a more situational definition. John Dewey defined ( Dewey 1927 ) public as a group of people who, in facing a similar problem, recognize it and organize themselves to address it. Dewey's definition of a public is thus situational: people organized about

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1044-541: A public is distinct from a stakeholder or a market . A public is a subset of the set of stakeholders for an organization, that comprises those people concerned with a specific issue. Whilst a market has an exchange relationship with an organization, and is usually a passive entity that is created by the organization, public does not necessarily have an exchange relationship, and is both self-creating and self-organizing. Publics are targeted by public relations efforts. In this, target publics are those publics whose involvement

1131-587: A public is viewed as a condition of political involvement that is not transitory; and " homo narrans ", where a public is (in the words of Gabriel M. Vasquez, assistant professor in the School of Communication at the University of Houston ) a collection of "individuals that develop a group consciousness around a problematic situation and act to solve the problematic situations" ( Vasquez 1993 , pp. 209). Public schools are often under controversy for their "agenda-building," especially in debates over whether to teach

1218-500: A religious or secular curriculum. The promotion of an agenda is commonplace whenever one is in a public environment, but schools have exceptional power in that regard. One non-situational concept of a public is that of Kirk Hallahan, professor at Colorado State University , who defines a public as "a group of people who relate to an organization, who demonstrate varying degrees of activity—passivity, and who might (or might not) interact with others concerning their relationship with

1305-633: A result of the intersection of human persons , shared technologies, and their practices. Inverness County Council Inverness-shire ( Scottish Gaelic : Siorrachd Inbhir Nis ) or the County of Inverness , is a historic county in Scotland . It is named after Inverness , its largest settlement, which was also the county town . Covering much of the Highlands and some of the Hebrides , it

1392-483: A review of boundaries, with exclaves being transferred to a county they actually bordered, and parish and county boundaries being adjusted to eliminate cases where parishes straddled county boundaries. There were several such changes affecting the boundaries of Inverness-shire. Notable changes included gaining the Small Isles of Canna , Muck and Rùm from Argyll. Exceptionally, the parish of Croy and Dalcross

1479-512: A separate kingdom. The province was finally brought fully into the Kingdom of Scotland during the 12th century. In order to secure the Scottish crown's authority over the area, it was divided into shires , being areas administered by a sheriff . The old province of Moray was broadly split into the three shires of Elginshire , Nairnshire , and Inverness-shire, with Inverness-shire including

1566-673: A single county opted to place the whole parish in Inverness-shire. There are eleven islands in the Inner Hebrides that were in Inverness-shire prior to 1975 and were inhabited at the 2011 census . These are islands as defined by National Records of Scotland; some are tidal islands or have fixed links (bridges / causeways) to the mainland or other islands. There are thirteen islands in the Outer Hebrides that were in Inverness-shire prior to 1975 and were inhabited at

1653-399: A situation. Built upon this situational definition of a public is the situational theory of publics by James E. Grunig ( Grunig 1983 ), which talks of nonpublics (who have no problem), latent publics (who have a problem), aware publics (who recognize that they have a problem), and active publics (who do something about their problem). In public relations and communication theory,

1740-671: A sizeable collection of historic 78-rpm recordings of Gaelic singers and musicians, donated from the archives of the BBC in Glasgow . Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Library is a member of the Consortium of European Research Libraries , and the Ligue des Bibliothèques Européenes de Recherche . The following have been College Principals and Directors of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: The college hosts regular concerts, plays, cèilidhs , dances, films, and gigs open to

1827-600: A television studio. Àrainn Ostaig opened in the autumn of 1993. The same year, the college launched what would prove a remarkably popular postgraduate diploma in Gaelic Broadcasting. The early 1990s saw a series of significant developments at Sabhal Mòr, including the establishment in 1992 of the Lèirsinn Research Centre and the Cànan creative agency. The growth of college accommodation allowed

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1914-614: A £900,000 end-of-year surplus wrangled from the Scottish Office by the then Minister for Industry, Education and Gaelic, Brian Wilson . In 1997 the college commenced its first BA courses, Cànan is Cultar na Gàidhlig (Gaelic Language and Culture), and Gàidhlig agus Iomall a’ Chuain Siar (Gaelic and the Atlantic Rim), later Gàidhlig is Leasachadh (Gaelic and Development). These were upgraded into Honours courses in 2002, when

2001-674: Is Scottish Gaelic . Since its foundation in 1973 Sabhal Mòr Ostaig has played a crucial role in the linguistic and cultural renaissance of Gaelic in Scotland . The college enjoys an international reputation for the study of the history and literature of the Gàidhealtachd , past and present; for research into political, educational, and community aspects of minority language maintenance and revitalisation ; and for its engagement with Gaelic creative arts, as well as with broadcast and online media. Sabhal Mòr's research base has been further strengthened to take in sociolinguistics , through

2088-697: Is Skye , separated from the Inverness-shire mainland by the Sound of Sleat . It is the second largest island in Scotland and has numerous peninsulas and offshore islands. To the west, across the Little Minch , most of the Outer Hebrides fall within the county, with the notable exception of Lewis which is in Ross-shire. Further west still lie the remote islands of St Kilda , which have been uninhabited since 1930. Much further west, 230 miles from

2175-627: Is Scotland's largest county by land area. It is generally rural and sparsely populated, containing only three towns which held burgh status, being Inverness, Fort William and Kingussie . The county is crossed by the Great Glen , which contains Loch Ness and separates the Grampian Mountains to the south-east from the Northwest Highlands . The county also includes Ben Nevis , the highest mountain in both Scotland and

2262-533: Is also an Inverness lieutenancy area which covers the mainland part of the pre-1975 county and the Small Isles , as well as the parts of the historic counties of Argyll and Moray that were transferred to Highland. The mainland part of Inverness-shire was anciently part of the Province of Moray , ruled by the Earls or Mormaers of Moray , sometimes as a vassal of the Scottish crown, and at other times effectively as

2349-654: Is in Gaelic and means "For the Good of the County". Civil parishes are still used for some statistical purposes, and separate census figures are published for them. As their areas have been largely unchanged since the 19th century this allows for comparison of population figures over an extended period. Parishes had parish boards from 1845 to 1894 and then parish councils from 1894 to 1930. They have had no administrative functions since 1930. In 1854 there had been 36 civil parishes, 7 of which had straddled county boundaries. Following

2436-420: Is necessary for achieving organization goals; intervening publics are opinion formers and mediators, who pass information to the target publics; and influentials are publics that the target publics turn to for consultation, whose value judgements are influential upon how a target public will judge any public relations material. The public is often targeted especially in regard to political agendas as their vote

2523-508: Is necessary in order to further the progression of the cause. As seen in Massachusetts between 2003 and 2004, it was necessary to "win a critical mass of states and a critical mass of public support" in order to get same-sex marriage passed in the commonwealth. Public relations theory perspectives on publics are situational, per Dewey and Grunig; mass, where a public is simply viewed as a population of individuals; agenda-building, where

2610-453: Is virtually nothing that could not be achieved in the Highlands. Noble set about putting his ideals into practice. Gaelic speakers were recruited and employed in running new fishing and textile enterprises; a bar was set up beside the estate headquarters as a Gaelic-oriented social and cultural focus for the district; and he was soon involved in a series of wrangles with Inverness County Council over bilingual Gaelic roadsigns on his land. Noble

2697-529: The Acts of Union in 1707, the English term 'county' came to be used interchangeably with the older term 'shire'. In 1870, Cromdale and Grantown-on-Spey were transferred from Inverness-shire to Elginshire in exchange for the area around Aviemore . Elected county councils were established in 1890 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 , taking most of the functions of the commissioners (which were eventually abolished in 1930). The burgh of Inverness

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2784-642: The Highland region and the Western Isles council area, three new constituencies were created to cover the Highland region. The region, until 1996, and the unitary Highland council area, 1996 to present, have been covered by three constituencies since then but there were changes to boundaries and names in 1997 and 2005. In 1999 the areas of the Westminster constituencies became also constituencies of

2871-584: The Highland Council 's area. The Isle of Skye is connected to the mainland by a bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh in Ross-shire. Various bus companies serve the larger towns of the county, such as Stagecoach Group and Scottish Citylink . Shiel Buses operate local buses in the Fort William area. Stagecoach operates several bus routes on the Isle of Skye. Numerous ferries connect the islands of

2958-566: The Island of Rockall Act 1972 , Rockall was assigned to the Harris district of Inverness-shire. The UK claim on Rockall is disputed, particularly by Ireland . Local government was reformed in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts for most of Scotland. A single-tier structure of island areas

3045-604: The Northwest Highlands to the west from the Grampian Mountains (including the Monadhliath Mountains ) to the east. The glen contains the notable lochs of Loch Ness (Scotland's second largest), Loch Oich , and Loch Lochy , which are connected by the Caledonian Canal . The Great Glen opens to the south-west into the sea loch of Loch Linnhe . Ben Nevis , the tallest peak in Britain, is located to

3132-563: The Rough Bounds due to its remoteness and inaccessibility. It remains wild and sparsely populated today. The terrain in Inverness-shire is generally mountainous, with numerous lochs scattered throughout the county. Some of the lochs have been enlarged to use as reservoirs. The larger inland lochs are: Inverness-shire contains numerous small islands off its west coast which form part of the Inner Hebrides . The largest of these

3219-812: The Soillse initiative; corpus planning and historical lexicography , through the Stòrdata Nàiseanta na Gàidhlig/Gaelic Terminology Database and the Faclair na Gàidhlig/Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic projects; and toponomy , through the Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba/Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland advisory partnership, all based at the college. Research capacity is underpinned by the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Library with its internationally important collections of material related to Gaelic and to

3306-591: The United Kingdom . The county ceased to be used for local government purposes in 1975. Since then, the parts of the county on the mainland and in the Inner Hebrides have been part of the Highland region, which was redesignated a council area in 1996. The Outer Hebrides parts of the county became part of the Western Isles , which since 1998 has used only the Scots Gaelic version of its name, Na h-Eileanan an Iar . The neighbouring counties prior to

3393-553: The 15th century, the quasi-independent Lordship of the Isles was fully incorporated into the kingdom of Scotland, and the Sheriff of Inverness was then also made responsible for the Outer Hebrides and some of the Inner Hebrides , notably Skye . An act of parliament in 1504 acknowledged that the shire of Inverness was too big for the effective administration of justice, and so declared Ross and Caithness to be separate shires. That act

3480-588: The 1891 boundary changes, which sought to eliminate cases where parishes straddled county boundaries, there were 33 parishes in the county. Many changes have taken place since the Reformation period: The Highland Main Line connects Inverness by rail to Perth to the south, Kyle of Lochalsh to the west, and Thurso / Wick to the north. The West Highland Line connects Fort William to Mallaig . The Inverness to Aberdeen main line also serves Nairn within

3567-584: The 1975 reforms were (clockwise from north) Ross and Cromarty , Nairnshire , Moray , Banffshire , Aberdeenshire , Perthshire and Argyll . The mainland part of the county had a coast to the east onto the Moray Firth , and a much longer coast to the west onto the Sea of the Hebrides . The historic county boundaries of Inverness-shire are still used for certain functions, being a registration county . There

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3654-603: The 1980s the full-time student body at Sabhal Mòr numbered on average ten a year. Prospects for future development, however, remained restricted as long as the college focused solely on recruiting business students with fluent Gaelic. Opportunities for significant expansion arose at the end of the decade with the establishment of Comataidh Telebhisein Gàidhlig , endowed by the government with an annual grant of £9.5 million. With its business focus, and existing expertise in ICT , Sabhal Mòr

3741-532: The 2011 census. Inverness-shire County Council was granted a coat of arms in 1927, based on the design of the council's official seal . The blazon read: The galley represents Clan Chattan , who aligned themselves under the banner of Somerled, Lord of the Isles . The stag's head comes from the crest of the Frasers of Lovat, while the bull's head comes from the crest of the MacLeods of that Ilk. The motto

3828-679: The Highlands, and further complemented by the proximity of two major Highland archives: those of MacDonald of Sleat in the Museum of the Isles by Armadale Castle , and the MacLeod papers in Dunvegan Castle . Through academic collaboration and student exchanges, the college maintains links with partner institutions in Scotland, Ireland , Wales , and Nova Scotia . With residencies for writers, artists, musicians, and dramatists; its degree courses in media and traditional music; its hosting of

3915-518: The Outer Hebrides, lies the extremely remote, uninhabitable island of Rockall , which is subject to a territorial dispute with Ireland . The Small Isles were historically split between Inverness-shire and Argyll, with Eigg in Inverness-shire and the others ( Canna , Muck and Rùm ) in Argyll. As the Small Isles formed a single parish, the 1891 boundary review charged with placing parishes in

4002-578: The Outer Hebrides, the Inner Hebrides, and the Scottish Mainland. There are three airports in the county: Inverness , Benbecula , and Barra . All three operate flights within Scotland, with Inverness also providing flights to other cities in the UK as well as some destinations in Europe. Barra Airport is famous within aviation circles as it is the only airport in the world where scheduled flights use

4089-569: The University of the Highlands and Islands project was granted university status and thus degree-granting powers in March 2011, the college has strengthened its research base through sponsorship of a growing number of PhD studentships. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig continues its expansion in the twenty-first century. Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle , the college's associate campus in Islay, opened in 2002. The college

4176-491: The University of the Highlands and Islands, with Celtic Societies in other universities and with other smaller colleges across the country. Public The name "public" originates with the Latin publicus (also poplicus ), from populus , to the English word ' populace ', and in general denotes some mass population ("the people") in association with some matter of common interest. So in political science and history,

4263-472: The areas of the provincial lordships of Badenoch and Lochaber which were subordinate to Moray. Around the same time, the Scottish crown was also trying to secure its control on Ross and Caithness (which then included Sutherland ), the mainland provinces north of Moray. The Scottish crown had claimed them since 1098, when Norwegian overlordship of that area had been ceded to Scotland but, like Moray, they had remained largely independent. Whereas Moray

4350-640: The award-winning Cùrsa Inntrigidh for beginners, and six years later, the Cùrsa Adhartais for advanced learners. The college also offers an innovative master's degree, the MSc in Cultar Dùthchasach agus Eachdraidh na Gàidhealtachd (Material Culture and Gàidhealtachd History), begun in 2005 as an MA in Cultar Dùthchasach agus an Àrainneachd (Material Culture and the Environment). Since

4437-646: The corner of Ardross Street and Glenurquhart Road (built 1876) as its offices, renaming it County Buildings . The building was substantially extended in 1963 to provide additional offices, but council meetings continued to be held at Inverness Castle until the county council's abolition in 1975. In 1955 the UK Government claimed sovereignty over Rockall , an uninhabited islet in the North Atlantic Ocean , which lies 301 kilometres (187 statute miles; 163 nautical miles) west of St Kilda . Under

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4524-433: The county constituency was divided between two new constituencies, the Inverness constituency and the Western Isles constituency . The Inverness constituency included the burgh of Inverness, other components of the district of burghs being divided between the Moray and Nairn constituency and the Ross and Cromarty constituency . In 1983, eight years after the local government county of Inverness had been divided between

4611-403: The east of Fort William. The west coast consists of a number of peninsulas divided by long sea loch inlets; north to south these are the Glenelg peninsula (shared with Ross-shire), Loch Hourn , Knoydart peninsula, Loch Nevis , North and South Morar / Arisaig peninsula, Loch Ailort , Moidart peninsula and Loch Moidart . The west coast of Inverness-shire was traditionally referred to as

4698-417: The efficacy of new ISDN communications technologies in linking widely dispersed colleges into a single university network. Forsyth's remarkable volte-face gave the UHI proposal the vital government support required to make a plausible submission to the lottery-funded Millennium Commission . The project bid was funded in full: an award of £33.35 million allowed construction of new college buildings throughout

4785-427: The future – and the introduction of university-level BA courses the following year. The most significant influence on the college's long-term strategic thinking during the 1990s was the prospect of participating as a partner college in the recently proposed University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) network, and thus being able to offer full-time degree courses. The involvement of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig from 1995 onwards

4872-400: The historic counties in the UK as a whole, only Yorkshire was larger. Its mainland section covers a large area of the Highlands , bordering the Sea of the Hebrides to the west and Beauly Firth and Moray Firth to the east which provide access to the North Sea . It is split into two by the Great Glen , a roughly 60-mile geological fault which runs south-west to north-east and divides

4959-413: The island of Islay and incorporating a library and lecture facilities, was opened in 2002. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is an independent charitable company and an Academic Partner of the University of the Highlands and Islands. The college itself is governed by a Board of Directors responsible for strategy and policy development. Its Cathraichean (Chairs) since 2007 have been: A college management team supervises

5046-405: The main Skye campus, but the college runs a number of courses elsewhere in the country and abroad. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Library is an internationally significant collection of material, antiquarian and contemporary, relating to Gaelic language, culture, and music, and Highland history. At present Special Collections number over 6,000 volumes, comprising six principal divisions: The Library also holds

5133-460: The main ferry terminal at Armadale, consists of two quadrangles. The renovated Ostaig steading was originally built on a U-plan in the late 1820s by Major Allan MacDonald of Belfinlay, who had the lease of Ostaig farm at the time, then subsequently extended on the south side. The adjoining modern blocks of student accommodation, lecture facilities, and offices, designed by Donald Mackillop Assocs, were opened in autumn 1993. The original buildings contain

5220-406: The mainland, the southern Outer Hebrides, and some of the Inner Hebrides. Over time, Scotland's shires became more significant than the old provinces, with more administrative functions being given to the sheriffs. In 1667 Commissioners of Supply were established for each shire, which would serve as the main administrative body for the area until the creation of county councils in 1890. Following

5307-402: The national folklore digitisation project Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches ; and Fàs, its £8-million centre for creative industries, Sabhal Mòr fulfils an important cultural remit both in the Highlands and in Scotland more generally. In early 1972 Iain Noble , financier, merchant banker, and Gaelic activist, bought the northern portion of the Sleat estate, in the south of the Isle of Skye, from

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5394-406: The network, in preparation for envisaged university status. Among these buildings was the £6 million second campus at Sabhal Mòr, Àrainn Chaluim Chille (Columba Campus). The site, two hundred yards along the road from the original Ostaig site, occupied part of a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 -acre (2.6-hectare) site donated by Ellice MacDonald, chairman of Clan Donald Trust, that had previously been earmarked as

5481-462: The new college principal, Seán Ó Drisceoil, appointed on a three-year secondment from Údarás na Gaeltachta in Ireland. Seven students, all native speakers from the Western Isles , comprised the first intake. Despite continuing financial problems, the college expanded its programme to take in two new HNDs: Business and Information Studies in 1987, and Business and Secretarial Studies, subsequently Business Studies with Office Technology, in 1988. During

5568-420: The organization". Samuel Mateus's 2011 paper "Public as Social Experience" considered to view the concept by an alternative point of view: the public "is neither a simple audience constituted by media consumers nor just a rational-critical agency of a Public Sphere". He argued "the concept should also be seen in the light of a publicness principle, beyond a critic and manipulative publicity (...). In accordance,

5655-474: The possibilities of delivering two-year full-time diploma courses through Gaelic. Two years later the committee recommended the establishment of practically oriented business and administration courses focusing upon the situation in the Highlands, but employing comparisons with similar regions. Following a fundraising drive to pay for the necessary building improvements, the first two-year HND diploma course, in Business and Gàidhealtachd Studies, began in 1983 under

5742-413: The post the following spring. During the early years of the college's existence the trustees’ energy was directed towards fundraising, improving the dilapidated Ostaig steading, expanding summer courses in Gaelic and music, developing links with equivalent institutions in Ireland, Wales, and Canada, and hosting an annual conference. In July 1978 the trustees of the college established a committee to examine

5829-641: The public and should become a centre for students. Teachers and an academic ambience were the logical extensions of the new theme. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig was established as a charitable trust in 1973, "as an educational institute, with a special emphasis on Gaelic educational functions", with a longer-term vision of establishing a Gaelic-medium college and research centre offering vocational further education , as well as opportunities for Gaelic learners to develop their fluency. Four urrasairean or trustees were appointed: Iain Noble, poet Sorley Maclean , Donald Ruaraidh Macdonald of Portree High School, and Gordon Barr, then

5916-445: The public may be regarded as the result of the social activities made by individuals sharing symbolic representations and common emotions in publicness. Seen with lower-case, the concept is a set of subjectivities who look publicly for a feeling of belonging. So, in this perspective, the public is still a fundamental notion to social life although in a different manner in comparison to 18th century Public Sphere's Public. He means above all

6003-494: The regions and districts created in 1975 abolished and replaced with single-tier council areas . The former Highland region became one of the new council areas. The lieutenancy areas continue to be defined as they had been in 1975 despite the abolition of the districts on which they were based. The boundaries of the historic county of Inverness-shire (as it was following the 1891 boundary changes) are still used for some limited official purposes connected with land registration, being

6090-451: The rest of the decade there would be a major expansion of the college campus and a sizeable growth in student numbers. The latter was the consequence of two new one-year HNC diplomas established in 1997 – the innovative language immersion Cùrsa Comais intended to enable Gaelic learners to attain comprehension and fluency within a year, and the HNC in Gaelic Performing Arts designed to meet an apparent need for more Gaelic television actors in

6177-461: The site for a new township, Bail’ Ùr Ostaig, the subject of an unsuccessful £15.75 million bid by Sabhal Mòr itself to the Millennium Commission. In September 1998 Àrainn Chaluim Chille, with teaching facilities, library, dining room, lecture/sports/concert hall, and 31 student bedrooms, was completed; the following year saw the opening of the iconic tower Lòchran an Dòmhnallaich (the MacDonald Beacon), containing 31 further bedrooms and partly funded from

6264-450: The social textures and configurations where successive layers of social experience are built up." Social publics are groups of people united by common ideas, ideology, or hobbies. Networked publics are social publics which have been socially restructured by the networking of technologies. As such, they are simultaneously both (1) the space constructed through networked technologies and (2) the imagined collective which consequently emerges as

6351-632: The student common room and the Tàlla Mòr or Great Hall, used for cèilidhs and smaller concerts, while the newer hosts the Café Ostaig. Àrainn Chaluim Chille, 300 yards to the east of Àrainn Ostaig, consists of a main building (1998) incorporating teaching facilities, the college library and dining room, the lecture/sports/concert hall Talla Dhonaidh Chaimbeul, and student accommodation, and the broch -like tower Lòchran an Dòmhnallaich (1999), containing additional student and guest bedrooms and crowned by

6438-522: The then owner, Godfrey Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald of Sleat . Noble's vision for his new Eilean Iarmain estate was inspired by a visit he had made to the Faroe Islands in the late 1960s. There he had been impressed by how the local linguistic and cultural renaissance had helped to create what was at the time a correspondingly dynamic economic and creative revival: When I asked the Faroese, I

6525-438: The three internal departments of Academic Provision, Arts and Development, and Finance and Planning. College staff are also involved in the governance of the University of the Highlands and Islands, and participate in relevant committees within the wider network partnership. The following projects are associated with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig has a writer-in-residence, a musician-in-residence, artists in residence, and

6612-455: The wider local community, while local hotels and pubs offer weekly music sessions in a variety of styles. There are a number of local sports clubs, and a Club Coiseachd/Walking Club allows students the opportunity to enjoy the landscape of Skye and surrounding areas. As well as organising social events, the student association Comann nan Oileanach is involved in a number of campaigns, strengthening links with students in other Associate Partners in

6699-417: Was allowed to continue to straddle Inverness-shire and Nairnshire. The boundary changes all took effect in 1891. Inverness was subsequently brought within the administrative area of the county council in 1930, but classed as a large burgh , allowing the town council to continue to provide most local government services. From the 1930s onwards the county council used the former Inverness College building at

6786-411: Was also inspired by the idea of renovating a semi-derelict farmhouse steading at Ostaig as a Gaelic cultural centre. Plans at first focused around the establishment of a Gaelic library, quickly growing through donations to become the largest public collection of Gaelic-related material in the Hebrides. In Noble's words, however: a library by itself is like mustard without beef. It would have to be open to

6873-474: Was amazed when they all replied that things began to happen when they decided to be Faroese and stop being Danish. This sparked the whole thing off. It gave them a sort of self-respect… I am convinced that through the revival of the language there came a pride in identity and all else followed. We mustn’t be frightened of being a small community. Instead we must create our own internal binding factors. People here have never believed that things are possible. But there

6960-520: Was crucial for the credibility of the wider UHI project. Its Gaelic identity helped to lend the scheme a much needed cultural distinctiveness rooted in the region. In a more concrete sense, the surprising ‘conversion’ of the then Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth to the merit of the UHI scheme in October 1995 was primarily due to a recent visit to Sabhal Mòr during which he had been given a demonstration of

7047-404: Was deemed capable of providing its own county-level local government functions, and so it was excluded from the administrative area of the county council, although the county council still chose to base itself there. Inverness-shire County Council held its first meeting on 22 May 1890 in the county's main courthouse at Inverness Castle , which had been rebuilt in 1836. The 1889 Act also led to

7134-607: Was divided into shires at some point during the 12th century, Ross and Caithness were not made shires at that time. Instead, the Sheriff of Inverness was given authority (at least nominally) over the northern provinces too. By the mid-13th century, there were sheriffs at Cromarty and Dingwall in Ross, but the extent of their control was fairly limited, with the Sheriff of Inverness still responsible for most of Ross and Caithness. The position of Sheriff of Dingwall did not endure. In

7221-585: Was finished. In 2013 the £6.7 million first phase of the Kilbeg Village scheme began, a long-term development that will result in new administration and research facilities, a conference and training centre, new college and community sports and recreation provision, a hotel, and up to 75 new houses being built in the space between the two campuses. At present Sabhal Mòr Ostaig occupies two linked campuses, Àrainn Ostaig and Àrainn Chaluim Chille. Àrainn Ostaig, situated some 2 miles (3 kilometres) north-east of

7308-411: Was set aside for most purposes in 1509; the northern areas eventually regained their independence from the sheriff of Inverness with the creation of the shires of Sutherland in 1633, Caithness in 1641, and Ross-shire in 1661. Ross-shire also included the northern Outer Hebrides, notably the Isle of Lewis . After 1661, Inverness-shire therefore comprised the western part of the province of Moray on

7395-639: Was used for Orkney , Shetland and the Western Isles . The mainland and Inner Hebrides parts of Inverness-shire became part of the Highland Region , whilst the Outer Hebrides parts (the districts of Barra , Harris , North Uist and South Uist ) became part of the Western Isles. The parts of Inverness-shire which went to the Highland Region were split between four lower-tier districts : Prior to 1975, each county had appointed

7482-461: Was visited by Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay in 2004; he expressed hope for the Gaelic language flourishing, stating "Scottish life is greatly enriched by the Gaelic dimension," and "If it flourishes here it sends out a message of inspiration and optimism." In 2008 the £8 million new centre for creative and cultural industries, Ionad Fàs, incorporating a television studio, offices, workshop and exhibition spaces, and Gaelic-medium childcare facilities,

7569-616: Was well placed to take advantage of the demand for a major increase in Gaelic-speaking personnel in the Scottish media. Under its new director Norman Gillies, the college was able to secure funding from the Scottish Office , Highlands and Islands Enterprise , Scottish Television , and Grampian Television for the construction of a £1.4 million accommodation block, Àrainn Ostaig (Ostaig Campus), with 36 student bedrooms, teaching and administration spaces, dining facilities, and

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