A selection of articles on Robert Burns' life and work. Visit our Foot Stompin' Robert Burns home where you can view loads of different CDs, books and DVDs on the great man.
Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend. Poems like Tam O'Shanter, Holy Willie's Prayer, Address to a Haggis, Auld Lang Syne, A Man's A Man for a' That, My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose, The Cotter's Saturday Night, and To A Mouse have brought him in front of the world and an inspiration the the many artists of the world.
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