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This is Ours

“John MacKenzie recalls on hearing the news that he felt a sense of anti-climax, but that on the following day when he looked out on the land outside his croft he became conscious of what had been achieved; that his forebears would not have had the same sense of ownership of, and belonging to, the land which he now had.”*

*Extract taken from ‘We Have Won the Land’ by John MacAskill 1999.

“The next day, walking out over the land, it was just awesome. To think we had actually pulled it off, and that this was for the first time ever, in legal terms anyway, the crofters’. That the Crofters could…get up in the morning and say ‘this is ours’. That was a huge, magnificent feeling.”*

* Words of Bill Ritchie. Extract taken from ‘We Have Won the Land’ by John MacAskill 1999.

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Rory Matheson & Graham Rorie Glasgow, UK

‘We Have Won The Land’ is the new collaborative project between Glasgow based folk musicians Rory Matheson and Graham Rorie. This suite of new music has been inspired by Rory’s local area of Assynt in the North-West Highlands of Scotland and the crofter's buy-out of the North Lochinver Estate by the Assynt Crofter’s Trust in 1993. ... more

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