{"id":5140,"date":"2017-06-08T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:15:44","slug":"cionran-by-ross-whyte-and-alasdair-whyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/cionran-by-ross-whyte-and-alasdair-whyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Cionran by Ross Whyte and Alasdair Whyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song won joint first place in our&nbsp;N\u00f2s \u00d9r 2017 songwriting competition. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/nos-ur-2017-winners-announced\/\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cionran by Ross Whyte and Alasdair Whyte.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Gaelic term \u2018cionran\u2019 has fallen out of use but it means \u2018melancholy music\u2019. The song\u2019s \u2018ciarag\u2019 \u2013 a Gaelic word meaning \u2018little female dark one\u2019 \u2013 is an allegory for melancholia. The English word melancholia ultimately derives from an Ancient Greek word applied to the condition of having black bile.<\/p>\n<p>Jacky Bowring has recently argued that melancholia is not a negative emotion, which for much of history it wasn\u2019t. Her argument is that it was and is, instead, \u201ca desirable condition, sought for its \u2018sweetness\u2019 and intensity\u201d (see Jacky Bowring, A Field Guide to Melancholy (Harpenden: Oldcastle Books, 2008)). The song explores this theme.<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019 chiarag ghrinn a dh\u2019fh\u00e0g mi tiamhaidh, d\u00ecoghrasach, gun bhr\u00ecgh<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019 chiarag ghrinn a dh\u2019fh\u00e0g mi tiamhaidh, d\u00ecoghrasach, gun bhr\u00ecgh<br \/>\n\u2019S i a dh\u2019fh\u00e0g mi, ghabh mi, dh\u2019fh\u00e0g mi \u2019n seo leam fh\u00ecn lem mhiann<br \/>\n\u2019S mi a thill, a thilleas, sireadh binneas, d\u00e8inead, pian<\/p>\n<p>Teas agus de\u00f2thas<br \/>\nis de\u00f2thas is teas<br \/>\na bhios uair an d\u00e8idh uair<br \/>\n\u2019gintinn pr\u00e0mh agus gean;<br \/>\nteas agus de\u00f2thas<br \/>\nis de\u00f2thas is teas<br \/>\na bhios uair an d\u00e8idh uair<br \/>\na\u2019 l\u00f9ghdachadh meas<\/p>\n<p>A\u2019 chiarag ghrinn a dh\u2019fh\u00e0g mi tiamhaidh, d\u00ecoghrasach, gun bhr\u00ecgh<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whytenoise.co.uk\">WHYTE<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news,nos-ur\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1496935089\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Cionran by Ross Whyte and Alasdair Whyte\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song won joint first place in our&nbsp;N\u00f2s \u00d9r 2017 songwriting competition. Read the press release. Cionran by Ross Whyte and Alasdair Whyte. The Gaelic term \u2018cionran\u2019 has fallen out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-nos-ur","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}