Irvine is on Scotland's West Coast, 25 miles south of Glasgow and 10 miles north of Prestwick Airport, and is only 90 minutes drive from Edinburgh. Irvine is served by a half-hourly train service from Ayr or Glasgow, and the Burns Club is within walking or taxi distance of the station.

Irvine is only a thirty-minute journey from Burns Cottage and the Burns National Heritage Park at Alloway, so you can easily include us in an Ayrshire tour. Also in Irvine, just ten minutes' walk away, is the Heckling Shed where Burns worked and the house where he stayed in 1781. Those interested in ships may also wish to make time for the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine harbour.

Opening Times
Easter to September - Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat 2.30 -4.30
October to March - Saturdays 2.30 - 4.30
Admission free

We welcome pre-booked visits by interested groups.
To arrange a visit write to the Secretary at the address above, or email us.

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(and some Irvine and some Scottish)

• The World Burns Club, an extensive resource on Robert Burns,
• the National Burns Collection - a national resource
• the National Library of Scotland section on Burns,
• Burns Country, the official Robert Burns site,
• The Bard (from Scotland On-Line),
• The Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee (with many useful links).
• The Halifax Burns Club in Canada,
• In Scotland, check out Alexandria Burns Club and the Alamo Burns Club of Paisley,
• Barrmill Jolly Beggars Burns Club and their Robert Service Verse-speaking Competition
• Bowhill People's Burns Club and Bridgeton Burns Club,
• Dalry Burns Club and Mauchline Burns Club,
• Paisley Burns Club and Perth Burns Club
• Places to visit include the Burns Heritage Park , the Murison Burns Collection in Dunfermline, and Ellisland Farm.

'Borealis', the five-piece Ayrshire band creating and performing their own versions of the songs of Robert Burns in a contemporary fusion of jazz, classical, folk and blues

For video scenes of Scotland and much else,, try 'The Magic of Scotland'

For more information about Irvine in general,

• Irvine Ayrshire links page (includes other Ayrshire links),
• the Irvine Herald, one of the local papers,
• the Magnum Leisure Centre,
• the Harbour Arts Centre,
• Irvine Incorporated Trades,
• The Irvine Carters Society (the Marymass website).