Burns Night

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January 1, 2018 at 1:43 am #131239

alanjjohnstone
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It is to be expected that Socialist Courier, the blog of our Edinburgh and Glasgow branches, would have posted about Scotland's poet. https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2016/01/burns-night.htmlhttps://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2013/01/burns-night.htmlBut let us not forget other 'peoples poets' such as Fife miner Joe Corriehttps://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2012/12/joe-corrie-rebel-poems.html

January 1, 2018 at 1:43 am #85950

PJShannon
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January 18, 2018 at 6:31 am #131240

alanjjohnstone
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In 2003 the World Bank economist Lesley Campbell, estimated that Burns generated £157 million each year for Scotland. This figure has grown exponentially since then.Joan McAlpine, a SNP MSP said: “It is high time that we looked seriously at the economic potential of Burns the Brand."http://www.thenational.scot/news/15857173.Robert_Burns_s_value_to_Scotland_debated_at_Holyrood/

January 25, 2018 at 7:22 pm #131241

Brian Gardner
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Lots of nice sentiments in Burns' poetry. Cant quite square "a man's a man" etc with the fact he was almost on the boat to Wesy Indies to work as a slave overseer when his poetry took off
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