Links to Burns (and Related) Sites
Burns Country - An extensive Burns web site that includes: A mirror site
of My Supper With Rabbie, The Burns Federation web site, a complete Burns archive, and The Burns Encyclopedia .
Robert Burns (1759-1796) - Entertaining, and annotated,
snippets from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Selected Poetry of Robert Burns - Annotated selections from the University of Toronto's English Department.
David Sibbald's Robert Burns Website offers an extensive look at the Bard from many different perspectives.
Scottish recipes may be found in the exhaustive, and easily searchable, SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes).
Haggis Recipes - More haggis.
Mail order haggis - from Lamb Etc. in Roseburg, Oregon.
The Poetry of Robert Burns - 3 downloadable audio files from the Gaelic Homepage.
Burns - The National Bard - 5 Burns selections.
The Works of Robert Burns - Burns selections.
The soc.culture.scottish FAQ Page - A very fine resource for links and information on a wide variety of Scottish cultural topics.
The Standing Stones - Traditional Celtic music group's Web site with interesting pages on diverse topics, including 18th century Scottish Music.
Lowlands-L - List serve for those who share an interest in Lowlands languages and cultures, including Scots.
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The Complete On-Line Works of Robert Burns - Developed from the Public Domain EText provided by Project Gutenberg, hosted on the web site of
The Robert Burns Club of Milwaukee. What more could you possibly want?
The Bard - Comprehensive Burns site, with a section on Burns Suppers .
SLAINTE - The web site of the Scottish Library Association and the Scottish Library and Information Council. Includes a biographical index of Scottish authors.
Selelected Poetry of Robert Fergusson - 3 selections from the University of Toronto's English Department.
Robert Burns' Dirty Linen - Steve Winick's Aug.-Sep., '96 Dirty Linen magazine review of Burns recordings.
Robert Burns in Atholl - Biographical account by John Robertson of the Clan Donnachaidh Society.
Byron, A Comprehensive Study of His Life & Work- Simple, usable, archive and biography of the great Romantic poet.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Homepage - Scholarly site, edited by Richard Dury, with links to complete e-texts of Stevenson's work.
William McGonagall - poet and tragedian. Does anything (can anything) compare to The Tay Bridge Disaster?
Robert W. Service - Extensive web site about this Canadian son of the Scottish diaspora, includes the
complete text of many volumes of his poetry.
Whisky Web - Whisky stuff.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society - Another whisky site, where you can find a link to
Lagavulin, my favorite whisky.
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An Invitation to Contribute
I would love to hear about your Burns Night celebrations - the unique poetry, prose, songs, toasts, recipes, anecdotes and rituals that make your Burns Suppers special. Please feel free to e-mail me, Bennett Fischer, suppers@auldlangsyne.org. If you have any stories, comments or questions about this site, I'll be happy to hear them, and will do my best to respond appropriately.
For What It's Worth
I first became interested in Robert Burns after a beloved high school history teacher made a derisive comment about Scottish "culture," many years ago. (Something about Scots living in caves, turpentine, and haggis.) I live in beautiful Flatbush, Brooklyn, USA, with my remarkable wife, Gretchen, and 3! extraordinary daughters. I teach art to elementary school students in a Special Education program, love to listen to honkin', screamin' 50's R'n'B, drink whisky, and smoke cigars. I enjoy playing Diplomacy by e-mail, riding my bicycle around Brooklyn, and taking long swims in cold, northern lakes. There's not a Scottish bone in my body, and my mother would probably claim that the Scots are a lost tribe of the Jewish Diaspora.
My scant, cheapskate knowledge of HTML was gleaned from on-line tutorials. Especially useful were Jerry Zeldman's (now defunct) early HTML tutorials. Jay Boersma's Webwork (a good, basic "how to" site). Joe Barta's So, you want to make a Web Page! (another good, basic "how to" site). And, David Siegel's excellent Web Wonk site. I used Tom Bender's wonderful Tex-Edit Plus to compile this site. It's a fantastic, small footprint, AppleScriptable, text editor that I can't say enough good things about. ($15 Shareware!).
About.com's Web Clip Art was used to search for some of the graphics on these pages. The Celtic images were designed by Chris Wright.
If you have surrendered to the dark forces of the Wintel Empire, please ease your journey through the valley of the shadow of the Redmond Monolith by visiting Dave's Place - A Beginner's Guide to Freeware and Shareware on the Internet. It's a nifty, award winning site maintained by my dedicated colleague and HTML design crony, (Your Guess Here) Leibowitz.
This web site was made with a Mac and is best viewed while enjoying a nice cuppa coffee.
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