Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Allan Dorans (Scottish National Party), on Thursday, 18 January 2024, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 48 members in total.

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Celebration of the birth and legacy of Robert (Rabbie) Burns

That this House notes and celebrates the 265th anniversary of the birth of Robert (Rabbie) Burns, Scotland’s national bard, in Alloway on the 25 January 1759, regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic literacy movement, and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora, a poet and lyricist who penned the words of Auld Lang Syne, which is sung across the globe on New Year’s Eve, and wrote other poems and songs including Tam O’Shanter, Ae Fond Kiss, To a Mouse, Scots Wa Hae, A Red, Red Rose and A Man’s a Man for A’ That, and whose work has been translated into more than 40 languages and his memory honoured by more than over 50 official statues including in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Russia and Estonia, has had his image portrayed on postage stamps, banknotes and coins in a number of countries and whose life, works and immortal memory are celebrated at Burn’s Suppers across the world by millions of people on 25 January every year.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

298 

Session

2023-24

Other sponsors

Alan Brown

Patricia Gibson

Philippa Whitford

Mhairi Black

Stephen Flynn

Subjects

Anniversaries Burns, Robert

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk