Scotland Magazine

LET THEM EAT HAGGIS

It is said that the few who first sat down to have a meal in Burns Cottage, Alloway, in 1801, did so because they missed their friend, Robert Burns, so much after he died in 1796.

On the anniversary of his death on 21 July they held the first commemoration organised

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