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The Robert Lord Writers Cottage Trust is delighted to announce that residencies for 2025–26 have been awarded to Ella Borrie, Gina Butson, Casey Carsel, Chye-Ling Huang (with Geoff Bonning), Joshua ...
Dating back to 1788 and built by Burns himself, the farmstead is recognised as a site of exceptional historic and cultural importance. It was built as a family home for his wife, Jean Armour, on ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the ...
Robert Burns was born on January 25 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, and died in Dumfries aged 37 on July 21 1796. The painting sold at Wimbledon Auctions on Monday has not been given a precise date and ...
A “very rare” portrait of Robert Burns has sold for more than 160 times its estimated price of about £500. The picture, painted in the manner of Sir Henry Raeburn, fetched £84,320 (including ...
Robert Burns enthusiasts have slammed the “mindless vandalism” of Scotland’s national bard’s final resting place. A glass panel at the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries was smashed on Tuesday ...
Brevard County political consultant and Space Coast Rocket founder Robert Burns was ordered by a state judge to pay $24,500 in fines related to an election fraud case this week.
The first Burns supper was held in 1801, five years after the death of Scotland’s beloved poet, Robert Burns, setting a template that’s remained largely unchanged since: music, poetry, food ...
Held every January 25, the birthday of Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns, the day celebrates the national poet of Scotland. Much of Burns’ writing, in a “light Scots dialect” of English, is ...
Burns moved to what is now Burns Street in 1793 and lived here with Jean Armour and his children for the last three years of his life. Jean lived at the address for another 30 years until her death.
A group of men intent on retrieving the poet’s skull gathered close to the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries at 7pm one night in late March, 1834. With too many people on the streets of town at that ...