When we toast these admirable lassies, as Burns reminds us, we celebrate the full range of human experience, the heroic in ...

Burns suppers have traditionally been a male-led event but women are trying to bring a new spirit to the Bard's big night. "Robert Burns was a massive fan of women," says Kerry Burley, the ...

The Burns Supper is an institution of Scottish life: a night to celebrate the life and works of the national Bard. Suppers can range from an informal gathering of friends to a huge, formal dinner ...

The Haill Six Incorporated Trades of Kirkcudbright held their annual Burns Supper on Saturday night at Arden House Hotel when ...

With Burns Night just around the corner, the Daily Record has taken a look into the history of haggis and why it is traditionally served on January 25 in honour of the bard.

As long as my arm. Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the ...

Many Scots celebrate the event with a Burns supper, eating a meal of haggis plus neeps and tatties, and dinners are often punctuated with bagpipe music, poetry recitals, and toasts. So of course ...

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The Big Burns Supper festival is making its return to Dumfries after being postponed last year due to a lack of key funding. Support from some organisations was "rolled over" for 12 months in ...

Enthusiastic Burnsians have taken the plunge and helped make a world’s first for the Big Burns Supper festival in Dumfries a sell out. Blending tradition with a splash of innovation, all places on the ...

Which day of the year combines haggis, whisky, poetry, and fun? Burns Night, of course! Held every January 25, the birthday of Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns, the day celebrates the national poet of ...