Person    | Male  Born 25/1/1759  Died 21/7/1796

Robert Burns

Categories: Poetry, Seriously Famous

Countries: Scotland

Born Alloway, Ayrshire. Wrote in the Scots language, and also in a Scots dialect which is accessible to English speakers. Also collected traditional songs. Scots the world over celebrate his birth by attending a Burns Supper on his birthday. These events are ritualised with bagpipes, toasts, readings, dancing and lots of whisky. Works include: Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, A Red Red Rose, To a Mouse. Died Dumfries.

The Selkirk Grace:
Some hae meat and canna eat,
and some wad eat that want it,
but we hae meat and we can eat,
and sae the Lord be thankit.

The Scotsman found 6 statues world-wide plus a monument and a replica cottage.

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