Unlike our past Villages of the Week, Alloway is not a village at all but rather a suburb of Ayr — though it used to be its own village in the time of Robert Burns. Despite its small size ...

A National Trust for Scotland portal provides access to more than 2,500 items in its collection linked to the poet.

Robert Burns died in Dumfries in 1796 and moved from ... One is held at Edinburgh University and another at the Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway.

Robert (or Robbie or Rabbie) Burns. Burns was born on Jan. 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland. His first book of poetry was published in 1786. By the time he passed in 1796, he wrote hundreds of ...

Isle of Arran Distillers have been producing a Robert Burns branded single ... at the time, to Burns' birthplace of Alloway in Ayrshire. Burns indeed would have seen Arran most days from his ...

Caroline Smith, NTS operations manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire, said: “This list features some of my personal favourites from our collection.

It’s Robert Burns Season and Scotland’s national ... Held at Burns Cottage in Alloway, Burns’ friends ate bountiful quantities of haggis and gave performances of Burns’ work and a speech ...

Five years after the death of Robert Burns, the first Burns supper was held in his birthplace, Alloway. In July 1801, haggis and sheep’s head were served while a group of the poet’s close ...

Born on January 25, 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, Robert Burns was a farmer’s son with an extraordinary gift for capturing the human spirit through his poetry. His works reflect themes of love ...