{"id":5748,"date":"2021-09-30T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/?page_id=5748"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:31:16","slug":"janet-paisley-services-to-scots-award-2021-derrick-mcclure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/janet-paisley-services-to-scots-award-2021-derrick-mcclure\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Paisley Services to Scots Award 2021 &#8211; Derrick McClure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5749\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/files\/2021\/09\/P1019434-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Derrick McClure is the recipient o the Janet Paisley Services tae Scots Award for 2021. The Janet Paisley Award is for lifelang commitment tae and promotion o Scots.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick McClure wis born in Ayr and has lang bided in the Doric-spikkin North East. As a senior lecturer at the University o Aiberdeen and renowned expert in the field o Scots for mair nor fifty year, Derrick\u2019s contribution tae the Scots leid is baith maikless and undeemous.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick\u2019s darg in academia covered aw aspects o Scots and Scots literature and a guid swatch o the warld and aw. Spikkin passionately aboot Scots and Scots scrievers in aw the airts on the national and international lecture circuit, Derrick has been instrumental in upheezin the status and prestige o Scots leid and literary heritage at hame and furth o Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>At Aiberdeen University he supervised coontless theses forby ane scrievit in Scots by Alasdair Allan, currently the MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar and a former Minister for Scots. Derrick himsel chaired the Ministerial Working Group on the Scots Language in 2009-10 and this group\u2019s Report led tae significant improvements tae provision for the Scots leid and Scots speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick has scrievit hunners o airticles aboot the Scots leid and its makars: fae Sir David Lyndsay tae Sir Walter Scott, Allan Ramsay tae Robert Louis Stevenson, Violet Jacob tae Tom Leonard. Derrick\u2019s recent publication o \u201cA Kist o Skinklan Things\u201d is a clyack feast o scrievin fae the twintieth century\u2019s Scottish Renaissance and reveals an aye-gaun virr for sharin and makkin us look again at the best o Scots poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick is an accomplished and prolific translator o Scots, owersettin poetry fae a haill clanjamfrie o leids, amang them Sorley MacLean\u2019s Gaelic \u201cSangs tae Eimhir\u201d and Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s \u201cThe Prince Bairnie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Add tae aw that, his influential buik \u201cWhy Scots Matters\u201d which wis and aye is a clarion caw for the Scots language, and it\u2019s weel seen why Derrick McClure is tae receive the Janet Paisley Services tae Scots Award for 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick McClure is the recipient o the Janet Paisley Services tae Scots Award for 2021. The Janet Paisley Award is for lifelang commitment tae and promotion o Scots. Derrick McClure wis born in Ayr and has lang bided in the Doric-spikkin North East. As a senior lecturer at the University o Aiberdeen and renowned expert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5749,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-5748","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PhaZzh-1uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5750,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5748\/revisions\/5750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotslanguageawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}