Stumbled upon when reading an article about Robert Burns' republican sentiments in the Guardian book blog:
Honouring the Bard: some facts
• Sales of haggis are expected to soar this year. Two well-known suppliers, Macsweens and Ken Stahly, have reported record sales in advance of Burns Night, with 650 Burns suppers already officially registered for the Homecoming festival.
• Scottish haggis is still banned in the United States, but not in Canada, after the BSE crisis, but expats claim that haggis smuggling thrives.
• A wicker fire sculpture of Tam O'Shanter will be burnt on Burns Night in Dumfries, where Burns died in 1796, as part of a celebratory fire festival and lantern parade.
• In Alloway, Burns's birthplace, his cottage, the Brig o'Doon and Alloway Auld Kirk and graveyard, the setting for Tam O'Shanter, will be stage sets for a theatrical Burns tribute
• Roughly 10,000 Highland clan members from around the world are expected to attend a clan gathering and Highland games in Edinburgh in July.
• The Scottish football cup has been renamed the Homecoming Scottish cup, more than 250 Burns compositions will be sung or read in a 12-hour long Burns poetry extravaganza in Glasgow, and 100 million US and Canadian television viewers will see a Homecoming advert on cable channels to boost tourism and visitor numbers.
Honouring the Bard: some facts
• Sales of haggis are expected to soar this year. Two well-known suppliers, Macsweens and Ken Stahly, have reported record sales in advance of Burns Night, with 650 Burns suppers already officially registered for the Homecoming festival.
• Scottish haggis is still banned in the United States, but not in Canada, after the BSE crisis, but expats claim that haggis smuggling thrives.
• A wicker fire sculpture of Tam O'Shanter will be burnt on Burns Night in Dumfries, where Burns died in 1796, as part of a celebratory fire festival and lantern parade.
• In Alloway, Burns's birthplace, his cottage, the Brig o'Doon and Alloway Auld Kirk and graveyard, the setting for Tam O'Shanter, will be stage sets for a theatrical Burns tribute
• Roughly 10,000 Highland clan members from around the world are expected to attend a clan gathering and Highland games in Edinburgh in July.
• The Scottish football cup has been renamed the Homecoming Scottish cup, more than 250 Burns compositions will be sung or read in a 12-hour long Burns poetry extravaganza in Glasgow, and 100 million US and Canadian television viewers will see a Homecoming advert on cable channels to boost tourism and visitor numbers.
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