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A WEEK ago, on a particularly wet and wild night, more than 70 people, most but not all middle-aged, mainly women but with a good complement of men, gathered in Toward village hall, a few miles south of Dunoon. They were there to hear the first Robin Jenkins memorial lecture.
I think the attendance was remarkable and that it says much about this country's continuing interest in its own literature and about the enthusiastic ability of Scots to participate in cultural engagement in the best sense of the term. After the lecture, there was a lively and well-informed discussion.See the full content of this document
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Very few politicians could have pulled in such an audience for a political meeting on such a vile night, in a relatively remote part of the country. Of course, the attendance was partly explained by the fact the novelist lived...
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