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  • Now Westlin Winds


    Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority Authority: 142
    As an addition to my post on the clearances of Guisachan , I think I should give you an idea of what these farmers thought about their lands being turned over to shooting estates. Robert Burns, who worked as a tenant farmer in South Ayrshire, penned these words that probably perfectly captured the sentiments of ...
    1 week ago

  • Frae the friends and land I love


    breakfast at murrayfield — Authority Authority: 127
    Remember I said I have won a Rabbie Burns t-shirt from Scotland.org ? Well, it’s just arrived! Meanwhile, Shakespeare ’s not been paid yet , still working on that — and I don’t care if you (yes, you, you know who you are.) say I’m aggressive, it’s your own fault I’m being aggressive to you ...
    1 week ago

  • Host of Scottish treasures unearthed at renovated National Library


    Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority Authority: 571
    By Rory Reynolds A HANDWRITTEN Robert Burns poem worth £30,000 is to be displayed for the first time alongside some of Scotland’s most treasured artifacts. The Battle of Sherramuir, a poem detailing the Jacobites’ fight against the king’s army at the height of the Jacobite rebellion, will be among the ...
    1 week ago

  • Minature book of Robert Burns’ poetry to be launched into orbit


    Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority Authority: 571
    By Oliver Farrimond A TINY book of Robert Burns’ poems is set to be blasted into SPACE. The miniature book will dock with the International Space Station next year after being carried into orbit by an American astronaut. A distant relative of Scotland’s Bard, Alan Archibald, donated the book to a space school ...
    1 week ago

  • Robert Burns archive


    Our Lady's Latest — Authority Authority: 123
    Press release from BBC Scotland:In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns BBC Radio Scotland is creating a permanent online archive of The Complete Works of Robert Burns, featuring performances by some of Scotland’s best-loved actors. From Brian Cox and Alan Cumming to Robbie Coltrane, ...
    1 week ago

  • Three out of four: that is not so bad, is it?


    breakfast at murrayfield — Authority Authority: 127
    – Baby niece will be let out of hospital tomorrow (huzzah!); – Chris Paterson resumed training the other day (huzzah!) with the Scotland squad after recovering from foot injury (he’s looking wafer thin, though — look at the picture to the right, here. Mossy, please, do yourself and us all a favour: ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Robert Burns stole thoughts from a lesser-known English poet?


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 726
    London, Nov 1 (ANI): Robert Burns, the renowned and much praised 18th century Scottish poet, may have ripped off ideas from a lesser-known English poet, according to experts.Rab Wilson, the Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, has found a striking similarity between a passage in Burns’ ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Halloween Poetry Friday: Janet Little


    Women's Voices For Change — Authority Authority: 494
    Tonight’s Halloween poem comes from a time two centuries after after the Scottish witches, below, were first evoked.  Janet Little (1759-1813), known to her readers as  “the Scotch milkmaid,”  wrote [...]
    4 weeks ago

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