Burns detested the political class that bought and sold Scotland for English gold. “Sic a parcel of rogues in a nation”, he wrote
The End of an Old Song
Wish You Were Here
” The pandemic allowed many of us to press the reset button, to re-evaluate, to prioritise. And I realised that I actually missed it. Like, really missed it. And I recognised the absolute joy that people experience in a gathering, a Ceilidh, a blether, a kind word, a joke, an embrace, a handshake.”
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Robert Burns, “The Voice of the Scottish People” – Sanday Supper 1948
” let us once again rise and drink, to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns, seer, poet and social reformer – the Voice of Scotland speaking to the World” John D. MacKay
The First Orkney Burns Club Supper 1898
“A club of good fellows like those who are here/And a bottle like this are my glory and care”
Rare Burns’ Manuscripts Go On Display
As we approach the celebrations to mark the birth of Scotland’s greatest poet, Robert Burns, 12 original manuscripts written by the bard himself are to go on display this January as part […]
Halloween Tales From Orkney: Robert Burns
“Some merry, friendly, country-folks,/Together did convene,/To burn their nits, and pou their stocks,/And haud their Halloween”
Normal People
” Is there another country anywhere where actually teaching your own language in your own schools to your own people would be seen as somehow controversial and politically divisive?”
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
“My plaidie to the angry airt,/I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee:”
Of Independent Mind
The pandemic enforced absence of Burns suppers has given me a chance to revisit my thoughts on Scotland’s most famous son, and has forced me to ask a really important fundamental question.
