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This Is My Glasgow

I came across this faded mural of Robert Burns on a sea wall on the Ardeer Peninsula in Ayrshire while searching a former explosives factory for one of the few surviving buildings from Glasgow's 1938 Empire Exhibition. Painted in 1996 by the local artist Gavin McInnes, the mural's based on an 1787 composition by Alexander Nasmyth, which is one of the few comtemporary portraits of Scotland's national poet.

A large mural of Robert Burns painted on a sea wall in Ayrshire.
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A sculpted bronze panel of Alloway Kirk scene from Robert Burns' 1791 narrative poem Tam o' Shanter, where he first lays eyes on the young witch he nicknames Cutty Sark (after the revealling gown she's wearing). Entranced by her salacious dancing, Tam calls out, revealling his presence to the assembled witches, and causing him to have to flee for his life.

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A bronze relief sculpture of a scene from the epic poem Tam o' Shanter.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics
4 Feb, free online

Robert Burns’s political legacy remains deeply contested. Paul Malgrati explores the transformations of Burns’s image throughout the late modern era, as revolutionaries, nationalists, & avant-garde writers co-opted his myth to challenge Scotland’s social & constitutional order.

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READING SCOTLAND with Paul Malgrati The Bard of Contention: Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics Tuesday, 04th February 2025 6.00 - 7.30 pm (German time) on MS Teams www.scotland.uni-mainz.de
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This weeks #Scottish word #illustration 'fou' from Death and Dr Hornbook by #RobertBurns

I'd like to think Terry Pratchett would have approved of Burns gifting a person just enough drunkenness to reach the ability to see what's really there.

And I suspect #Pratchett would also have relished Burns's depiction of Death with his rant against 'know it alls' quacks and charlatans embodied by a Dr Hornbook.
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A pre dawn drunk sitting on a wall staring at his companion, a seated skeleton with scythe and leister, who is telling him a tale and gesticulating under a waxing moon, all in a wooded lane overlooked by a distant cow. And excerpt from 'Death and Dr. Hornbook, a true story'; written by Robert Burns. The clachan yill had made me canty, I was na fou, but just had plenty: I stacher’d whyles, but yet took tent ay To free the ditches; An’ hillocks, stanes, an’ bushes, kend ay Frae ghaists an’ witches. The rising moon began to glowr The distant Cummock Hills out-owre: To count her horns, wi’ a’ my pow’r I set mysel; But whether she had three or four, I cou’d na tell. I was come round about the hill, And todlin down on Willie’s mill, Setting my staff wi’ a’ my skill To keep me sicker, Tho’ leeward whyles, against my will, I took a bicker. I there wi‘ Something does forgather, That pat me in an eerie swither; An awfu’ scythe, out-owre ae shouther, Clear-dangling, hang; A three-tae’d leister on the ither Lay, large an’ lang. Its stature seem’d lang Scotch ells twa; The queerest shape that e’er I saw, For fient a wame it had ava’ And then its shanks, They were as thin, as sharp an’ sma’ As cheeks o’ branks.
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

‘[Muriel Spark] observes that, unusually for the time, “Some of his most successful love songs present the girl’s point of view”. For example, citing the bawdy verse “Wha’ll mow me now”, she comments drily: “If this is difficult to decipher, a little imagination will serve the purpose”.’

—Prof Willie Maley outlines how Muriel Spark was influenced by Robert Burns

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Scottish Book TrustMuriel Spark burns bright on Burns NightProfessor Willy Maley outlines how Muriel Spark was influenced by Robert Burns. Originally published Tuesday 23 January 2018
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