Monday, 29 January 2018
Arts, Business and Cyber-Lynching
For now it's the Chair of the Arts Council, with his speech
at the Arts and Business NI annual awards in
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
The Legacy of Rabbie Burns 2018
By Willie Drennan
January 25th 2018 will mark the 259th birthday of
the immortal Robert Burns, and such is his legacy that we can’t help but ponder
what he would make of the state of the world today.
It was certainly the case during the Scottish Independence
campaign in 2014 that campaigners on either side were selective in their
quoting of Burns to claim he would have voted for their cause. Songs such as ‘Scots
Wha Hae’ were presented as confirmation of his Scottish credentials while ‘Does
Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat’ was
considered proof of his British credentials.
Indeed there is much in the works of Burns for both the
Scottish and British patriot. He didn’t see anything contradictory in that.
Also for the internationalist there were songs like, ‘A Man’s A Man For A’
That’.
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