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Newry and Mourne District Council got Burns Night of to an early start today when they honoured the famed poet Rabbie Burns.
Dessie Moorehead piped the haggis carried by Timothy Stewart into the council boardroom where Mayor Michael Ruane and Chairman of the Ulster Scots Committee William Burns spoke a few words.
Then it was up to Ursuala Mhic an tSaoir to address The Haggis in fine style with a recitation of Rabbie Burns Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race ... before raising the knife and stabbing the Haggis .. An' cut you up wi' ready slight!
There followed a meal of haggis tatties and neeps.
Rabbie Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scottish language. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic Movement and a source of inspiration to the founders of liberalism and socialism.
Aside from his own compositions, Burns collected folksongs from across Scotland. His poem and song ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is sung at Hogmanay and ‘Scots What Hae’ served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem. Other poems and songs of Burns that are still popular today include ‘A Red, Red Rose’, ‘a Man’s a Man for a’ That’, ‘To a Mouse’, ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ and ‘Ae Fond Kiss’.
