Burns Night celebration

Saturday the 30th January saw another Burns Night Celebration at Brasenose College. The evening began with the traditional Selkirk Grace, the Piping in of the Haggis by Pipe Major Ian Knight of the Oxford Caledonian Pipes and Drums band, and a reading of Burns' Address to a Haggis by Brasenose Politics lecturer, Tom Lubbock.

After a dinner of Scottish cuisine, entertainments included The Immortal Memory, a tribute to Robert Burns by Arvind Singhal (Medicine), and the singing of two airs by Hannah Grainger Clemson (DPhil Education). Following a procession through the Old Quad, the evening culminated with guests dancing Scottish reels and, as ever, with singing Auld Lang Syne.

Robert Burns was an 18th Century Scottish poet, born in South Ayrshire. He wrote both in the Scots language and in a Scottish-English dialect, and is considered to be Scotland's National Poet. Burns Nights or Suppers are celebrated all over the world in his memory.

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