Robert Burns
Poet and Musician
Scotland marks St Andrew's DayOn Sunday First Minister Alex Salmond will preside over the reopening of the birthplace of Scotland's national bard Robert Burns. The Burns Cottage, part of a larger heritage park in Alloway, Ayrshire, was closed for two months for AGBP1... In this article: St Andrew's Day, Scotland, Glasgow, Robert Burns, Alex Salmond, The Dykeenies, George Square, and Edinburgh Castle |
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BBC News | 2 hours ago
Homecoming year reaching climax
The year-long Homecoming festival comes to an end this weekend Scotland's Homecoming festival, marking 250 years since Robert Burns' birth, is coming to an end with some 40 events ahead of St Andrew's Day on Monday. Among them, a...
In this article: St Andrew's Day, Alex Salmond, Revenue, Michael Russell, Scotland, Auld Lang Syne, Dougie MacLean, and Karen Matheson
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scotsman.com - Politics | 13 hours ago
Have we got trews for you? No, Boris, it's a London kilt
...crafted in its honour. The competition will be launched at Kings Place, during an evening of poetry and songs celebrating Robert Burns. Two famous Scots a actor Robbie Coltrane and the poet Jackie Kay a are set to help judge the entries.
In this article: Boris Johnson, London, St Andrew's Day, London Underground, Jackie Kay, Robbie Coltrane, and FBI
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Language no barrier to literary prize win
...Scottish Government. Seamus Heaney and Jackie Kay are among those shortlisted, as is Robert Crawford for his timely biography of Robert Burns. The Saltire Homecoming Literary Award will be presented for one year only and will go to a book...
In this article: AL Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Scotland, and Robert Crawford
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Rosslyn Chapel: Raising the roof
...are concealed in the chapel's coded symbols. Over the centuries it attracted the great and the good, including Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns and even Queen Victoria, who was so taken by its pinnacled glory that she insisted it should be...
In this article: The Da Vinci Code, Rosslyn Chapel, Dan Brown, Knights Templar, Edinburgh, Tom Hanks, Scotland, and Catholic faith
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Chilling words that triggered the bloody massacre of clan MacDonald at Glencoe to go on display as a national 'treasure'
...at the National Library of Scotland. It is on display alongside other literary and historical landmarks, from a handwritten Robert Burns poem recently reclaimed from the US, to a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The...
In this article: Jacobite, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edinburgh, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client, The Guardian, Sherlock Holmes, and Treason Felony Act 1848
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Robert Burns song the star of Homecoming exhibit
...On Sunday site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Published Date: 15 November 2009 A ROBERT Burns manuscript is to form the centrepiece in a display of Scottish cultural treasures to go on show in...
In this article: Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Battle of Sheriffmuir, Treasure Island, Walter Scott, Arthur Conan Doyle, and England
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Poor ticket sales force Final Fling of Homecoming to downsize
...recession, had affected sales. Since the programme of 400 events was launched to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the SNP has been accused of using the celebrations to further the nationalist cause. News of...
In this article: T in the Park, Recession, Eddi Reader, Evelyn Glennie, Hue and Cry, Deacon Blue, and Edinburgh
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Scots racing champions could be related
...from generations of farmers on both sides of his family. On his father's side they can be traced to Ayrshire at about the time Robert Burns farmed at Mossgiel, in Mauchline parish. In 1797 tenant farmer Gilbert Clark, Sir Jackie's great...
In this article: Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Formula 1, and Dumbarton
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery given a GBP2m boost as facelift gets under way
...exhibitions in the galleries will breath new life into its classic portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Robert Burns and scores of other historical figures. irector of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, James...
In this article: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Scotsman, John Lavery, Edinburgh, Glasgow Boys, First World War, and Surgery
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Description from Wikipedia:
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.
He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature.
As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, Tam o' Shanter and Ae Fond Kiss.
- Birth Date:
- January 25, 1759
- Birthplace:
- Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
- Death Date:
- July 21, 1796
- Place of Death:
- Dumfries, Scotland
- Nationality:
- Scottish
- Occupation:
- Poet, lyricist, farmer, excise man
- Known for:
- Auld Lang Syne, To a Mouse, A Man's A Man for A' That, Ae Fond Kiss, Scots Wha Hae, Tam O'Shanter
- Period:
- Romanticism
- Influenced By:
- Robert Fergusson
- Influenced:
- John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bob Dylan, John Steinbeck, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë
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