It was bizarre. The deafening bagpipes ceased as an actor — wasn’t he in Braveheart? — began frantically stabbing what looked like a pillow encased in plastic. Its gray gut spilled out, and the ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 24, 2020, before the restrictions of the pandemic limited social gatherings. But even COVID-19 can't dampen the collective spirit of Robert ...

Host Jacki Lyden marks the 250th birthday of Scottish poet and haggis lover Robert Burns. She hears from Alison Jones, a champion of Burns' poems. Jones is also a champion reciter — she won The Robert ...

Robert Burns, Rabbie Burns, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and national poet of Scotland is 260 years old. Friday, Jan. 25, is Burns' birthday and observed by Scots and Burns admirers with ...

My Heart’s in the Highlands Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth; Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, The hills of the Highlands for ever I ...

Barack Obama's already picked a poet for his Inauguration—but considering the grim times, a reading of Robert Burns would be just as apt. The national bard of the Scots (they're celebrating his 250th ...

Murray Pittock receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the Edinburgh World Heritage website’s story about Scotland’s bard, it notes that ...

The name of Robert Burns might not be familiar, but every New Year’s Eve — or Hogmanay, as it is called in his native home Scotland — millions of people sing Auld Lang Syne, a poem that he wrote in ...

Around the world, Burns Night is celebrated Jan. 25 with suppers celebrating Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Locally, the Scottish Society of Central Pennsylvania pays homage to the poet with ...

Schlafly Tap Room celebrates Scottish Poet Robert Burns' birthday Laurie Hartung, left, a piper in the St. Louis Caledonian Pipe Band, readies with bandmates for a parade through the Schlafly Tap Room ...

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