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We celebrated Burns Night this week. Although this year large celebrations couldn’t take place, it gave us a good excuse to look back in the archives at past celebrations. A Burns Supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, the author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet’s birthday, January 25, known as Burns Night. However, in principle, celebrations may be held at any other time of the year. The first supper was held in memoriam at Burns Cottage by Burns’s friends, on July 21, 1801, the fifth anniversary of his death; it has been a regular occurrence ever since. ....
Scotland s most famous poet almost relocated to the Caribbean Credit: Getty If Robert Burns had got his way we might celebrate Burns Night by eating rice and peas and jerk chicken – perhaps with a ginger beer or a Red Stripe – rather than haggis, neaps and a dram. The tough lot of a farmer’s son and, later, as a tenant farmer, and the birth of no fewer than three illegitimate daughters in the space of a year, led Burns to seriously contemplate voyaging to the Caribbean to try his luck over there. Chances are, if he’d made the break and lived a colonial’s life in the sultry tropics, he’d not have produced such memorable poems and songs. Influenced by the Scottish makar tradition and espousing republicanism and traditional Scottish values, Burns is known as the “national poet of Scotland”. Sometimes dubbed a pre-Romantic, he wrote about farm life, local experiences, traditional culture and religious practices; his poems, rich in vernacular and full of emo ....
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Burns carving on memorial The WW1 war memorial on Ardrossan Beach pays tribute to Robert Burns through an intricate stone carving on the bottom of the stone cross. It shows Burns between David Livingstone and James Watt. It’s the perfect site to visit after a relaxing walk beside the water and shows the true impact of the incredible poet. Burns carving on memorial. (Credit: Martin Briscoe) Robert Burns statue New Cumnock is home to an impressive statue of Robert Burns, right beside the banks of Afton Water. There are three gold commemorative plaques behind the statue to commend some of Burns’ greatest works; “A Man’s A Man For A’ That”, “To A Louse” and “O Were I On Parnassus Hill”. ....
From Ayr to Adelaide and from Mossgiel to Moscow, Burns Night is celebrated around the world. Astonishingly, other than Queen Victoria and Christopher Columbus, there are more statues of Rabbie than any other non-religious figure. Fifteen of them are in Scotland, but there are also 14 in the USA, including one in the famous Central Park, seven in both Canada and Australia and even one at the Sorbonne in Paris. There’s even a replica of Burns Cottage in Atlanta, Georgia, standing since 1907. It remains the meeting place of the Atlanta Burns Club to this day. Burns is commemorated in even the most far flung places, with celebrations set to take place from Tanzania to Delhi, St Petersburg to Dhaka. ....