Robert Burns

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The horn drinking cup which belonged to poet Robert Burns

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Pub frequented by Robert Burns to be restored to ‘former glory’

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Ellisland Farm near Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway

Plans released to restore the only building Robert Burns ever built

A lost portrait of Robert Burns by the renowned artist Sir Henry Raeburn recently went display at the National Galleries Scotland: National in Edinburgh (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

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Edinburgh brewery to offer free beers for 'gingers' for Burns weekend

The lost portrait of Scottish poet, Robert Burns, by the renowned artist Sir Henry Raeburn, on display at the National Galleries Scotland (Picture: Jane Barlow)

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Dr William (Bill) Zachs, Director of Blackie House Library and Museum in Edinburgh, photographed with re-discovered portrait of Robert Burns by Henry Raeburn (left) and portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787 (right). Photo Credit Nick Mailer

'Once in a generation' discovery as lost Robert Burns portrait found

The whisky cask, distilled on a farm once home to Robert Burns, will be auctioned off for National Trust for Scotland

£10k whisky cask from Burns' family farm raffled for Bard’s birthday

Here's when Burns Night is and everything you need to know about Robert Burns.

When is Burns Night? Everything you need to know about Robert Burns

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Robert Burns, pictured in about 1786, farmed at Ellisland until 1791 (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Amelia Cimbalo with the painting by Alexander Nasmyth, which will be auctioned off to raise funds for the West Highland Museum.

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Old Bridge House Museum, Dumfries, which dates to the 17th Century, is threatened with closure as Dumfries and Galloway Council considers its budget. PIC: Contributed.

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The Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries gets a contemporary treatment in a light and music show by Northern Lights as part of the Big Burns Supper event this month.

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Having written more than 700 poems in his lifetime, Robert Burns has many quotes to his name.

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Inside the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries, which was recently lit up to mark the Big Burns Supper in the town. It was here in 1824 that a group of men entered the crypt to remove the poet's skull to use in a popular scientific experiment of the day.

Robert Burns: The night the poet's skull was taken from his crypt

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