the flax flower
Flax design - P Lucky

Irvine Burns Club and Museum - Enter Here

The long-established Irvine Burns Club, founded in 1826, maintains a Robert Burns Museum in the town where the poet Robert Burns lived and worked in 1781. Visitors can enjoy the audio-visual room, the manuscripts, and many paintings and artefacts. Admission free. We add regularly to the contents of this site.
Flax is the link between Robert Burns and Irvine. See Burns and the flax trade.

Irvine Annual Celebration top table 2006 President jim Burns with Robert Burns 2006

four photos from 2006 -
click to enlarge
(two group photos courtesy of 'Irvine Herald')

Piper and Presidents of Eglinton, Irvine and Lasses Burns Clubs 2006 Kilwinning Burns Club top table 2006

Irvine Burns Statue
to enlarge the wreath-laying photo, click here;
(Statue photo - I J Dickson :: Wreath-laying 2005 - 'Irvine Herald')
to read about the statue, go to our statue page

In the photos on the left - President Jim Burns 2005-06 and President Raymond Fitzgerald 2006-07; also piper Past President Jim Butler and Honorary Member Willie Young, President of Kilwinning Burns Club 2006

Lapel badge design - J Butler
Robert Burns worked in Irvine in 1781-82. Our museum at 'Wellwood' is open to the public - admission free.


Irvine Burns Club, founded in 1826, opened a Museum in 1965. Here we present the Club's history and a growing selection of items of interest. Start here.
email: info @ irvineburnsclub .org (omitting the spaces)

Irvine Burns Club web site initiated 1998 by Directors Michael Murray, John Inglis and Ian Dickson
redesigned in 2003 and since maintained by Vindogara Software (Ian J Dickson)

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