fathering at least 12 children with four women. However, many of his most famous poems were inspired by these relationships and he even wrote a declaration on women's rights in 1792. Ms Burley admits ...

Kerry Burley has performed at Burns suppers for 30 years ... fathering at least 12 children with four women. However, many of his most famous poems were inspired by these relationships and he ...

A Black Isle lunch in celebration of Robbie Burns was a “brilliant” success, with local school children stealing the show.

The Scottish Opera primary schools tour is bringing The Tale o' Tam o' Shanter to Glasgow and over 120 schools across ...

not a Burns poem but The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate. When my children competed for the Burns certificate prize the poems chosen for them were frequently not written by Burns, but by poets such ...

Lancaster’s annual literature festival is back on March 7–17 with the theme ‘The World Into Words’. The hugely varied ...

In Russia, every native poem has a contact number for the Samaritans ... People who succumb to coitus are punished by having children and Burns’s first, Elizabeth (“Bess”), was foisted ...

He published Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ... born 1788, with Jenny Clow. Burns also had nine children with Jean Armour, whom he married in 1788; only three of them survived childhood.

Burns dedicated an entire poem to the ‘Great chieftain o’ the ... designed to teach noble children French. It’s believed that the word ‘haggis’ is derived from the French verb hacher ...