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Robert Burns
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Curso 2017-2018
 Robert Burns.

General Information:

 He is famous for writing many poems and songs and is known as the
national poet of Scotland.

 He was born in a town called Alloway in Ayrshire, Scotland on the

25th January 1759 and died on the 21st July 1796, aged 37.

 He was the oldest child and had 6 siblings. They all worked on their
father’s farm when they were growing up and the family were quite
poor.

 Robert wrote his first poem when he was 15 years old about a girl
he was working on the farm with.

 He married a woman called Jean Armour in 1785 and had 9 children

with her and 4 other children with different women. His youngest
child, Maxwell Burns, was born on the day of his funeral.

 Burns wrote poems in an old dialect of Scottish called ‘Scots’ but

some poems are also in English.
  A Burns supper is a traditional Scottish feast and celebration held on
the 25th January to remember the birth of Robert Burns, the
Scottish national poet.

 A Burns supper takes place in the evening and begins with the
organisers and special guests being piped in then there is a welcome
speech made by the host of the event.

 After this the haggis is piped in with the person who cooked the
haggis holding it on a big tray. It is placed on the main table and
everyone stands while ‘Address to a Haggis’ – a poem by Burns - is
read out.

 When the address is finished, a knife is plunged into the haggis and
a toast is made with some whisky which signals the start of the
meal.

 After the haggis is eating there is a small speech said to thank the
people who cooked the meal and someone then talks about Burns’
life.

 Then there is some dancing, singing and reciting of Burns’ poetry.

The poems most commonly read out are ‘Tam O’Shanter’ and ‘To a
Mouse’

 Finally, the organisers of the supper thank everyone who has

attended and everyone stands to sing Auld Lang Syne, a song
written by Burns that we also sing at midnight on Hogmanay (New
Year’s Eve) – 31st December.

Celebrating Burns Night in Schools

 Every year the schools in the region of Inverclyde held a Burns

supper and around 120 pupils took part in the celebration.

 Everyone was welcomed before the haggis was piped in then the
address to a haggis was made by a student from my old high school

 After this, another student talked about the life of Robert Burns.
Then there was a lot of dancing and poetry reading
 To finish the night everyone joined hands to sing Auld Lang Syne.
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.

 There is now a museum in the cottage where Burns was born and
you can visit to look around the home he lived in and also the area
where the family farm was.

 In the museum there are more than 5,500 artefacts of Robert Burns
including the original books he wrote.

Photos gallery:
 “The Silver Tassie”

Go bring to me a pint o wine,

And fill it in a silver tassie;
That I may drink, before I go,
A service to my bonie lassie:
The boat rocks at the pier o Leith,
Fu loud the wind blaws frae the Ferry,
The ship rides by the Berwick-law,
And I maun leave my bony Mary.

The trumpets sound, the banners fly,

The glittering spears are rankèd ready,
The shouts o war are heard afar,
The battle closes deep and bloody.
It's not the roar o sea or shore,
Wad make me langer wish to tarry;
Nor shouts o war that's heard afar –
It's leaving thee, my bony Mary!

Robert Burns

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