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Robert Burns Lives!
By Frank R. Shaw, FSA Scot Email: jurascot@earthlink.net


  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
    Background of the Times in Which Burns Lived, Loved and Wrote
  • Chapter 2
    Guest columnist David E. Shi, President, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA
  • Chapter 3
    Whiskey and Burns Gang Thegither by Thomas Keith
  • Chapter 4
    Dining in Ayrshire
  • Chapter 5
    Guest columnist Thomas C. Burns, Ph.D.
  • Chapter 6
    Guest columnist Dr. G. Ross Roy.
  • Chapter 7
    G. Ross Roy’s Library.
  • Chapter 8
    My Long-Awaited Journey Through Burns Country
  • Chapter 9
    Robert Burns – Country Dancer
  • Chapter 10
    Dumfries Burns Howff Club
  • Chapter 11
    Rachel
  • Chapter 12
    Jim Hewitson
  • Chapter 13
    G. Ross Part II
  • Chapter 14
    Robert Barr, Jr.
  • Chapter 15
    Dr. G. Ross Roy
  • Chapter 16
    Anne Christie
  • Chapter 17
    Abb Gunn
  • Chapter 18
    North Carolina College Honors G. Ross Roy
  • Chapter 19
    Who Are These Burns People?
  • Chapter 20
    Another Tour of Burns Country
  • Chapter 21
    Immortal Memory at the Atlanta Burns Club
  • Chapter 22
    22 Days - An Highland  Immortal Memory
  • Chapter 23
    Burns Chronicle Index
  • Chapter 24
    Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns
  • Chapter 25
    Robert Burns Diamond Stylus
  • Chapter 26
    Burnsing
  • Chapter 27
    With Passions Wild and Strong
  • Chapter 28
    Scottish Coin To Celebrate 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns’ Birth
  • Chapter 29
    My Favorite Burns Poem
  • Chapter 30
    A Place to come to
  • Chapter 31
    Burns Nicht Bits, Tidbits, and Fragments
  • Chapter 32
    Robert Burns and James Hogg
  • Chapter 33
    Hunters’ Illustrated History of the Family, Friends and Contemporaries of Robert Burns
  • Chapter 34
    An article by Professor David Purdie, "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 35
    An article by Dr. Carruthers, "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 36
    An article by Billy Kay - "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 37
    An article by Eddi Reader - "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 38
    An article by
    Dr. Kenneth Simpson - "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 39
    "Inspiration on Inauguration Day" by Clark McGinn
    (with reflections on Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington)
  • Chapter 40
    Alex Salmond Speaks at Burns Symposium in Washington, D.C.
  • Chapter 41
    G. Ross Roy Collection of Robert Burns
  • Chapter 42
    An article by G. Ross Roy - "What Burns means to me".
  • Chapter 43
    An article by Patrick Scott - "The Immortal Memory".
  • Chapter 44
    Sunday Post articles on Robert Burns.
  • Chapter 45
    The Bard - Robert Burns, a biography.
  • Chapter 46
    The Bard. A Review of the book by
    Professor Gerard Carruthers.
  • Chapter 47
    Address to the Burns Club of Atlanta by Bill Dawson
  • Chapter 48
    Chat with Robert Crawford author of "The Bard".
  • Chapter 49
    Ae Fond Kiss, A Speech by Dr. James W. Flannery
  • Chapter 50
    Starkey Staring Mad by Clark McGinn
  • Chapter 51
    "Fickle Man", Robert Burns in the 21st Century
  • Chapter 52
    Robert Burns in England
    by Chris J. Rollie
  • Chapter 53
    Phrenology of Burns By Megan Coyer
  • Chapter 54
    Address to Robert Burns given by Clark McGinn at Westminster Abbey
  • Chapter 55
    Robert Burns and Slavery by Gerard Carruthers
  • Chapter 56
    Archibald Skirving and his Drawing of Robert Burns by Robert Carnie
  • Chapter 57
    'Law and Order' in 18th C. Edinburgh, The Case of Miss Burns V the Baillie by Robert Carnie
  • Chapter 58
    A Speech by Robert Carnie
  • Chapter 59
    Robert Burns - Writer of Songs by Robert H. Carnie
  • Chapter 60
    Burns the Improviser by Robert H. Carnie
  • Chapter 61
    The Honorary Graduation of Professor G. Ross Roy
  • Chapter 62
    ‘To Mr Robert Burns’: Verse Epistles from an Irish Poetic Circle by Jennifer Orr
  • Chapter 63
    What Burns Means to Me by James Macsween, Director, Macsweens of Edinburgh.
  • Chapter 64
    Programs at the Mitchell Library
  • Chapter 65
    New Burns Research Unit for Dumfries
  • Chapter 66
    On Burns Prosody: Address to a Haggis by Colin Blyth
  • Chapter 67
    What Haggis means to me.
  • Chapter 68
    Burns and Historic Scotland
  • Chapter 69
    The Auction of a Robert Burns Bowl Replica
  • Chapter 70
    Book Review of "The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry & Prose of Robert Burns"
    Edited by Robert Crawford & Christopher MacLachlan.
  • Chapter 71
    Burns Statue in Chicago
  • Chapter 72
    Follow-up Story of Chicago’s Defaced Robert Burns Statue
  • Chapter 73
    Was Robert Burns a Member of the Friends of the People in Dumfries?
  • Chapter 74
    An article by Floridian John Hollingsworth
  • Chapter 75
    Regarding the Homecoming

The Life of Robert Burns

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