{"id":513,"date":"2012-10-23T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-10-23T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T08:00:39","slug":"gaelic-hymns-from-the-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/23\/gaelic-hymns-from-the-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaelic hymns from the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_639\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/10\/danspioradail.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-639\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-639  \" title=\"Dan Spioradail\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/10\/danspioradail.jpg?w=300\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/10\/danspioradail.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/10\/danspioradail-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant, Peter. Dain spioradail. Elgin : Peter Macdonald, bookseller, 1837. New College Library Gaelic Collections 250.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New College Library&#8217;s recently catalogued Gaelic Collections contain several editions of\u00a0 &#8220;Dain spioradail &#8221; by the celebrated hymn writer Peter Grant.<\/p>\n<p>This edition at Gaelic Coll. 250\u00a0 is the fifth edition, considerably enlarged and improved from earlier editions. It was published in Elgin, in\u00a0the highlands of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The title page information refers to Grant&#8217;s Gaelic name P\u00e0draig Grannd nan \u00d2ran, which means &#8216;Peter Grant of the songs\u2019. Grant was a Baptist minister, born on 30 January 1783 at Ballintua, Strathspey, Scotland. He was a skilled fiddle player, who was able to set his poems on evangelical themes to well known tunes which were popular into the twentieth century.\u00a0 This work is typical of the works in the Gaelic Collection,\u00a0which contains many volumes of\u00a0religious poetry.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Patrick Murray, our Gaelic Cataloguer, for supplying details of this item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New College Library&#8217;s recently catalogued Gaelic Collections contain several editions of\u00a0 &#8220;Dain spioradail &#8221; by the celebrated hymn writer Peter Grant. This edition at Gaelic Coll. 250\u00a0 is the fifth edition, considerably enlarged and improved from earlier editions. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/10\/23\/gaelic-hymns-from-the-highlands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[79,90,92,131,135,154,165,171],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-8h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}