Former Celtic player, manager, and Hoops legend Tommy Burns' family has become the latest to call for Burns to be canonised as a saint by the Catholic Church.

Robert Burns, a son of tenant farmers, stepped into this political turbulence and achieved rapid acclaim. His poems drew on ...

This is meant to be a funny toast – and they chose… of all people, a German. The good people at my table, their heart sinks ...

I had the pleasure of speaking at the annual Burns Supper in the Masonic Temple in Lint Riggs, the home of Lodge Callendar 588. Although I am not a ‘brother of the mystic tie’ as the bard described ...

Earlier this week, we published Jenni Lang’s Reply to the Toast to the lassies given at the Edinburgh South Burns Supper.  We said we’d put up Andy Wiliamson’s original toast to which she was replying ...

AN EVENING of poetry, pints and politics in honour of Robert Burns was held at Unity Books on Glasgow’s Southside on Saturday in support of the Morning Star.

The formal event at the Colonial Heritage Club featured Scottish traditions, bagpipes, whisky and a dinner that included ...

My arrival in Scotland was delayed by a day due to Storm Éowyn, an extremely powerful “bomb cyclone” that hit Ireland, the ...

One of the social highlights of Lib Demmery in Edinburgh is the Edinburgh South Burns Supper, an annual evening of mirth celebrating Scotland’s national Bard Robert Burns. Previous highlights include, ...

Grace was said by Rev Maggie MacArthur, while the team of Brownie and Rainbow leaders from Cardross Pack and others served the meal: broth, followed by haggis, neaps and tatties, and then trifle and ...

A charity Burns Night Supper and Ceilidh in Crosfield Hall, Romsey raised funds for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, Freedom ...