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Irvine Burns Club and Irvine Burns Museum Founded in 1826, in the town where the poet Robert Burns lived and worked in 1781 - browse our many pages, or, even better, visit the Museum in person, and ask to see our manuscripts, paintings, artefacts, and the audio-visual. Admission is free. |
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pictures on this page: The Robert Burns statue in Irvine, the scene of
the annual wreath-laying on January 25th, organised by Irvine Burns Club
and the Club's premises at 'Wellwood' - a spacious and imposing 1903 building
of Ballochmyle red sandstone, bequeathed to the Club in 1962. Browse this site for details of the statue, our Museum and its collection, our history, and much else. |
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Burns lived and worked in Irvine in 1781-82, and two of the founders of
Irvine Burns Club in 1826 were men who had known the poet - see the section
'founded 1826' for more detail. Our museum at 'Wellwood',
in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland,
is open four
times weekly from April to September, and weekly on Saturdays during the
winter. |
Other news -
"A Night Out with Robert Burns" by Andrew O'Hagan is one of the several excellent books published for 2009. In its Introduction, page xxii, he describes watching our 1996 President reading the lesson in Irvine Old Parish Church on Burns Sunday.
Barrmill Jolly Beggars Burns Club is organising an International Robert W Service Verse-speaking Competition on Sat Feb 28th 2009 - reach it via our Links page
Perth Theatre is putting on the play 'Tam O'Shanter' from Fri 30 Jan - Sat 14 Feb, directed by Gerry Mulgrew.
East Ayrshire Council has developed two major exhibitions that will run for eight months of the year, at Kilmarnock’s premier Art Gallery and Museum, the Dick Institute. Creative Burns runs from February 14th to May 16th and entry is free The largest Burns exhibition during Homecoming 2009 and is located in Burns’ creative heartland, it explores the importance of Burns as a creative producer but also as an influence to artists and writers working both today and in the past. Creative Burns . Hot on its heels is Ayrshire Innovators in May, which charts the importance that Ayrshire people have had in shaping the world. Innovators like Sir Alexander Fleming, William Wallace, Graeme Obree, John Boyd Dunlop will form part of the exhibition alongside their contemporaries.
In Dunfermline, you can visit Scotland's Ancient Capital, Dunfermline ( Birthplace of Andrew Carnegie and burial place of King Robert the Bruce) to view the amazing Murison Burns Collection - you will be made most welcome. For details, reach it via our Links page
There's a new website named 'The Magic of Scotland' offering short but attractive video clips of various places around the country, for example 'Views from Arthur's Seat' giving an overview of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh - reach it via our Links page
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