Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2020, before the restrictions of the pandemic limited social gatherings. But even COVID-19 can't dampen the collective spirit of Robert ...

Brig o’Doon, the stone arch bridge Burns crossed daily with his dad on his way to work - Ian Goodrick / Alamy Stock Photo There’s something about Robert Burns. More statues have been erected to ...

Paris Alston: This is GBH's Morning Edition. This week in cities around the world, people will gather and drink a little more than their fair share of whiskey, sing some very old songs, and read ...

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January 25 is the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns, born in Alloway (now a suburb of Ayr) in 1759, and famed for such works as “To a Mouse,” “A Man’s a Man for A’ That,” “A Red, Red Rose,” and ...

Walk around the market town of Dumfries, Scotland, and at first glance you’ll see what looks like a kind of graffiti in the windowpanes — faint etchings in some, and in others verses written boldly in ...

Robert Burns, Rabbie Burns, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and national poet of Scotland is 260 years old. Friday, Jan. 25, is Burns' birthday and observed by Scots and Burns admirers with ...

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Which day of the year combines haggis, whisky, poetry, and fun? Burns Night, of course! Held every January 25, the birthday ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scottish poet Robert Burns gave the English-speaking world some of its most famous sayings and sentiments, including the New Year’s favorite “Auld Lang Syne” and the rhapsody, ...

Murray Pittock receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the Edinburgh World Heritage website’s story about Scotland’s bard, it notes that ...

For anyone doubting the power of literature to drastically influence major political events, let us invoke the shadow of Robert Burns, the perennial eighteenth-century Scottish poet. One can argue ...