Burns's linguistic craftsmanship here reaches its frenzied forte. 'Tam o' Shanter' was composed to accompany a drawing of Alloway-Kirk in the second volume of Captain Francis Grose's Antiquities ...

And that is just what kilt-clad guests will be doing Jan. 21 and 22 when the annual Robert Burns Celebration, a colorful commemoration of the writer's birthday, returns to the Tam O'Shanter in ...

Two statues in Dunfermline are having their stories retold with an interpretation board at the library. The statues of Robert Burns characters Tam o' Shanter and Souter Johnnie have been outside the ...

I was invited to a big Burns dinner in Luxembourg where I was proposing the Immortal Memory and presenting my piece de resistance ...

Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a Scottish poet and ... Burns was also a lover of scotch whisky, with many of his poems – such as Tam O'Shanter (1791) and John Barleycorn (1782) – praising ...

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

With Burns Night just around the corner, the Daily Record is journeying to the birthplace of Scotland's national bard for the latest edition of our Village of the Week series.

Show more Towards the end of his life, on a farm in Dumfries, Robert Burns begins to write a poem that will become one of his famous works. Published in 1791, Tam O'Shanter describes the wayward ...