Edina! Scotia’s darling seat!All hail thy palaces and tow’rs,Where once beneath a monarch’s feetSat Legislation’s sov’reign pow’rs!From marking wildly-scatter’d flow’rs,As on the banks of Ayr I stray’d,And singing, lone, the ling’ring hours,I shelter in thy honour’d shade. Robert Burns Address to Edinburgh Ayr Town Hall (KA7 1JX) on Saturday 11th February starting at 6pm. The… Continue reading Sign up for our Burns Supper in Ayr
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BURNS AND THE WORKING MAN
A blog by Iain Lawson Burns Night is on the 25th January and across the World people will meet up to celebrate his life and his enormous contribution to the worlds of literacy and music. There will be superlatives aplenty but I want to write about one aspect of his work that still brings great… Continue reading BURNS AND THE WORKING MAN