Robert Burns Deserves to Be Feted With Pipes and Poems By Niamh Crowe Platinum Quality Author

Whether you call him Robert Burns, Robbie Burns or more colloquially Rabbie Burns he is a writer whose work is known worldwide. He is a Scot of humble beginnings who, once his work became recognised for its beauty, mixed with the gentry. He was a failed farmer and a bard whose songs and poems summed up his experiences and his ideas and provided a diary of his times.

Just now Scots worldwide are preparing for Robert Burns night. It is a night they cherish year after year, a night that has its own traditions. It is certainly a night unlike any other celebration because, let's be honest, no other race but the Scots would consider Haggis a suitable celebratory meal. After all how many people really want to eat a dish whose main ingredients are sheep's lung, stomach, heart and liver?

On this night of nights the Chairperson for the evening asked the company to receive the haggis. It's piped in carried by the chief to the accompaniment of a slow hand clap. He then recites the poem "To a Haggis" and cuts it with a sharp knife. Then a guest speaker gives a short speech dedicated to the immortal memory of the poet. The fun continues with a toast to the lassies and a suitable reply to that toast. The rest of the evening is spent singing and saying the works of Robert Burns. When you think he wrote in a local dialect you will understand the reverence Scots have for Robert Burns because to the rest of us it is a struggle to understand the Ayrshire dialect he used in most of his work. Today there is a growing interest in reviving the dialect and many website available to help whose who want to quote the works as Robert Burns himself would have done.

Whiskey is drunk at this meal. In fact it is probably fair to say that a lot of whiskey is drunk on the night. After all they are toasting their own bard with a drink they have brewed themselves and which is the ideal accompaniment to the Haggis. A vote of thanks to the speakers is an integral part of the evening. The night itself ends with a clasping of hands and the most famous of all Robert Burns songs Auld Lang Syne

The one thing you can say bout Robert Burns night is that it is different and that it celebrates a man who was exceedingly different in that he was a genius. His work reached out to the ordinary man and woman yet enthralled the literary world. He has left a rich legacy indeed.

Niamh Crowe, Copyright Speechwriters 1994-2007, marketing@speech-writers.com, Tel. +353 1 8333599

Niamh Crowe started her speech writing career with Holiday toasts. That was 20 years ago. To date she has written thousands of different speeches like bride speeches, birthday speeches, farewell speeches and Christmas toast etc.

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